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What's the best cloud load balancer? AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, or a third-party alternative?
Choosing the right load balancer is about much more than just moving traffic...
Andrew Howe
Achieving unrivaled performance with media and video streaming on demand
For the uninitiated, layer 4 DR mode is a high performance load balancing method available on our appliances. It works by having all response traffic flow from the servers straight back to the clients...
Direct Server Return
Performance
Layer 4
Daniel Tighe
The importance of adding a load balancer to your test environments
Hands up here who is guilty of making that “simple” code change in a production environment, only to find it has broken some other functionality?..
Performance
Application Management
Lea Friend
Are you crazy to buy a hardware load balancer? Maybe not...
There’s no doubt that the software adoption trend for load balancers is increasing - and the likelihood is that this will continue. After all, it makes sense right?..
Comparisons
Performance
Daniel Tighe
Why use Professional Services?
Why on earth would I want to use Professional Services when I can use Support instead? Here we outline the differences and when you'd want to engage them...
Performance
Aaron West
Why won't NFSv3 just die already?
I ran into a problem recently where a customer was working to load balance NFS to their scale-out NAS product, they were saying that it mounted fine but “showmount -e” just wouldn’t work properly from their Linux client...
Performance
James Loveday
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...
Healthcare
Performance
Himakshi Goswami
Why use a reverse proxy?
For businesses struggling with web congestion due to heavy usage, using a reverse proxy is the right solution...
Performance
High Availability
Layer 7
Damian Pacuszka
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...
High Availability
Performance
Ged Ward
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?..
Performance
GSLB
Tom Hopkins
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...
Application Management
Microsoft
Performance
Himakshi Goswami
How load balancers optimize PACS performance in radiology
One of the most clinically-significant healthcare innovations of the last few decades, PACS has changed the architecture of the modern radiology department for good...
Healthcare
Performance
Andrew Howe
Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but…
Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it...
Performance
HAProxy
Storage