Switch maker F5 Networks last week upgraded its Internet traffic, content and network management products that could give users better ways to speed and manage their e-commerce infrastructure. The ...

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...

Expanded partnership delivers tighter integration between Cisco ACI tools and F5 BIG-IP DNS software to improve application availability and performance for mutual customers. Cisco and F5 have ...

A blade system without a load balancer would be like Chicago’s O’Hare without air traffic control. One of the core applications for server blades is to serve as the front end to Web hosting, firewalls ...

The LVS director provides IP-level load balancing to make parallel services of the cluster appear as a virtual service on a single IP address. The LVS Project is currently cooperating with the High ...

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High Availability (HA) refers to the design and implementation of systems that are operational and accessible without significant downtime. HA systems are engineered to overcome failures automatically ...

F5 Networks Inc. last week announced a new version of its server workload-balancing software, adding the ability to manage data for any IP-based application over a variety of advanced network ...

I, like many others in the web development industry, are huge fans of cloud services from Amazon, RackSpace and others. That being said, there is a new post about another Amazon Web Service named ...