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How to set up and manage an F5 in the ADC Portal
As an F5 engineer, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts.
Insights from the load balancer experts
Storage
Load balancing Weka is no longer optional — the new normal is 100X faster
Within the space of a few years our customers are demanding increases in performance and capacity — not just 10X, but 100X!..
Healthcare
Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!
Connecting remote sites to central data centers necessitates GSLB. But implementation for legacy modalities isn't straightforward...
GSLB
Complete guide to DNS load balancing: Choosing the right method for your applications
DNS is a naming convention that translates human-readable web addresses into IP-addresses, and vice versa...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Three big benefits of cloud load balancing
From CRMs that store customer information and ERP systems that track product data to cloud-computing platforms that can host websites and run multiple applications – organizations are using more and more cloud-based solutions to meet various business requirements...
Comparisons
Multi-application verus dedicated load balancing – which approach is best?
With a big, powerful and expensive ADC load balancer, there can be a strong temptation to load balance multiple applications – but when uptime is critical, could it become a single point of failure?..
AWS / Azure / GCP
Is the future in the cloud?
If you're building a brand new application today and you were delivering that out en masse to consumers, you would, in most cases, choose to deploy that in the cloud...
How-tos
How to install and configure HAProxy Layer 7 on Red Hat Linux
Control how HAProxy will be started, stopped, restarted, reloaded, or monitored...
High Availability
How to calculate the true cost of downtime to your organization
There’s one constant when it comes to downtime: whether the outage is expected or not, without access to systems or applications, your organization will probably experience some sort of pain...
GSLB
Choosing the best option to host across multiple locations or data centers
Organizations are moving away from the traditional data center model, and favoring a hybrid approach to hosting their systems and applications, that involves multiple sites, providers and even cloud environments...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Ensuring high availability of a Microsoft Exchange environment for a leading cloud provider
Our expertise enabled a leading cloud provider for IT resellers optimize their Microsoft Exchange environment making it highly available for 130,000+ users...
Open source
Open source software: myth-busting, business benefits and FOSDEM '21
At the end of the day open source is really about having access to the source code for your tools and programs, to do whatever you want to do with it...
Healthcare
Digital pathology: five ways to ensure fast and successful adoption
There's an urgent need to digitize pathology services globally – and, in the UK in particular, the introduction of new digital pathology methods is considered a priority...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Relaunching our load balancer for multi and hybrid cloud environments
How did our cloud load balancer go from one of the first on the market to a trusted solution for hybrid and multi-cloud environments?..
Performance
Why use a reverse proxy?
For businesses struggling with web congestion due to heavy usage, using a reverse proxy is the right solution...
Healthcare
Customer success story: bringing ultra-reliability, scalability and uninterrupted access to IBM PACS
In a mission-critical environment, zero downtime is essential. Therefore, application maintenance, performance updates, and security patches needed to be carried out without causing user interruptions or inconvenience...
High Availability
What is a load balancer? A comprehensive guide to load balancing
Hidden in data centers around the world, there are millions of load balancers that keep businesses and their applications fully functional 24/7 – making sure users enjoy a seamless and uninterrupted high-quality experience at every single click...
Open source
ModSecurity and the Case of the Never Decreasing Variables
In the world of web application security, it can be invaluable to consider a user's behaviour across the entire duration of their web app session...
Performance
Making the most of Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): If you’ve got it, use it
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world. But why – and when – should you use it?..
Open source
NGINX and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)
The X-Forwarded-For Header is a simple yet powerful solution to a very common problem. I'm not sure why, but for some reason it also seems to cause a lot of confusion...
High Availability
Ensuring highly available remote desktop services for Fortune 500 companies
Our expertise enabled an IT services provider to ensure reliability and high availability service for existing and new customers...
Print
Why zero downtime for print management is critical
A properly load balanced print management solution can ensure zero downtime, resilience, a simplified infrastructure, easy maintenance and optimal performance...
WAF
How to train your Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Let's look at the best way to use the WAF with as little pain as possible!..
Storage
Things to keep in mind while choosing a load balancer for your object storage system
Need your object storage system to be highly available, reliable and scalable? We've got you covered. Check out the most important things you need to know when load balancing your storage architecture...
Application Management
How Scomis improves the scalability and performance of its Hosted Application Service
A specialist IT services provider in the education market, Scomis provides hosted application services for over 600 primary and secondary schools across 19 local authority areas...
Storage
NAS vs Object Storage: what's best for unstructured data?
While data storage was simple once upon a time – it isn’t anymore...
Comparisons
Hardware, virtual, or cloud: how we help customers migrate seamlessly across platforms
In this ever-evolving business world, flexibility is the key to long-term success...
Comparisons
What's the best 10G switch upgrade path — 40G or 25G?
The explosion of information in our everyday lives has driven the technology market to create newer, faster technologies to cater for the storage and access to the data created...