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They might share a similar feature checklist, but they're engineered for entirely different audiences...
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Layer 7 load balancing: The complete guide to boosting application performance
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Storage
Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
GSLB
The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
Why 1/4 of NHS trusts use our load balancers
Liam Canavan
Healthcare Lead
The urgent need for digitalization, connectivity, and service transformation is putting huge strain on an already overwhelmed NHS...
How can I super-charge my object storage solutions with load balancing?
Jebez Erickson
Former Storage Partnerships Manager
Loadbalancer.org worked with this commercial bank to deliver a highly available, resilient, and scalable HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric object storage solution...
GSLB direct-to-node: how it works, and when to use it for your object storage deployment
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
We do a lot of work with object storage solution providers, and one of the main concerns that they have is throughput...
Bolster your network with mTLS functionality from Loadbalancer.org
Neil Hosking
Former Technical Support Engineer
For Enterprise 8.9, Loadbalancer.org added a new SSL Terminator for HAProxy, allowing for mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) configurations...
How to configure mTLS on a Loadbalancer.org appliance
Neil Hosking
Former Technical Support Engineer
If you're thinking about giving mTLS a go, why not try it for yourself by following the steps below...
How Loadbalancer.org helped this medical imaging vendor centrally manage their load balancing estate
Liam Canavan
Healthcare Lead
Enhanced visibility for more efficient and secure ADC management...
Cybersecurity series: Five security attacks WAFs can help you with...
Nicholas Turnbull
Backend Developer
There seems to be a lot of confusion about the role of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) in application security, and what types of threat a WAF can help mitigate in your deployment...
The pros and cons of offloading TLS/SSL encryption and decryption to your ADC
Neil Stone
Test Lead & EMEA/US Support Shift Leader
TLS encryption (formerly known as SSL encryption) is used to improve the safety of data exchanged over a network. But where should it sit in your network architecture?..
A beginner's guide to WAF: When and how should you use a Web Application Firewall?
Nicholas Turnbull
Backend Developer
Some network engineers think that Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are so complicated, they've been known to run away and hide for days when they've encountered one...
Lessons from InfoSec 2023: how to prevent a cyber crisis with a defense-in-depth strategy
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
The talk of the town at InfoSec 2023 was the evolving cyber security battleground, and the practical steps organizations might take in order to mitigate some of these threats...
The Loadbalancer ADC Portal backstory: vendor-agnostic centralized management
Andrew Zak
Head of Development
Our approach to software development has always been to listen to what our end users and technology providers are saying to us, and develop products that solve their specific issues...
Why you shouldn't lose sleep over the commercial end-of-life of ModSecurity
Andrew Howe
Former Technical Author/Architect
The ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF) engine is set to go end-of-life (EOL) on 1 July 2024...