This morning, F5 Networks is introducing a new load balancer, LineRate Point, and a volume licensing plan. Both are aimed at extending the F5 Synthesis framework to let all applications receive ...

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 ...

Logan Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist. A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to increase the overall capability of a system to handle heavy ...

Greetings - <BR>We're about to build out a second cluster of web servers (for geographic redundancy using round-robin DNS in a second colo) and I'm looking into a load balancer setup for the second ...

The company I work for has tasked me implementing redundancy in some of our publically facing systems. I recently built pairs of web and application servers, and need to implement a form of hardware ...

Load balancers used to be fairly simple, distributing user requests from the Internet to a group of servers instead of just one. Between the drive to differentiate themselves and the increasing ...

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 ...

F5 is integrating its SSL VPN gear with its load-balancing, traffic management hardware to turn the SSL device into a central policy and access enforcement point. With a new release of software for ...

This software conducts load balancing virtually for less than a physical appliance. A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to increase the overall ...