Barracuda, Citrix, Coyote Point, F5, Kemp, and Zeus offerings stretch from no-frills appliances with basic load balancing to kitchen-sink solutions with rule-based traffic management, application ...

Just as bananas and plantains look similar and some recipes might permit the substitution of one for the other, reverse proxies and load balancers share overlapping functionality -- but their ...

Commercial organizations increasingly move as many applications to the public cloud as possible, but state and local governments resist these efforts due to security or budgetary concerns. Many ...

Load balancers, once almost exclusive to the realm of hardware devices, can now be implemented effectively in software on another server. The line between hardware and software load balancers is ...

Equalizer E550si doesn't match the traffic acceleration features of high-end competitors, but delivers most everything else at a winning price Coyote Point Systems was one of the first vendors to ...

GitHub has been at work for the last year to develop a new load balancer, the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), aimed to be able to scale to billions of connections per day running on commodity hardware.

Ensuring peak performance and rock‑solid security isn’t optional – it’s essential. Many deploy NetScaler simply as a Citrix gateway or basic load balancer, but beneath the surface lies a suite of ...