Chris Heggem
Posted on Jul 6, 2017 11:35:20 AM
We haven’t expected much from our load balancers in the past. And why should we? Traditional load balancers had a relatively simple job (e.g. distribute traffic, SSL, some content switching), and functioned relatively well. End of story.
But then our infrastructure, platforms, services, and applications got smarter.
Topics: Software Defined Networks, Load Balancing, Software Load Balancer, TCO, Elastic Scale, Elastic Load Balancing, Hardware, smart load balancing
Swarna Podila
Posted on Jun 23, 2017 7:08:00 AM
Last week, my colleague Chris wrote about his "buyer's remorse" (not!). If you are an F5 BIP-IP LTM (or a Citrix NetScaler SDX or MPX) customer, I would like to get you thinking about software load balancers.
Enterprises have many issues with hardware and appliance-based load balancers. Some key struggles include:
Topics: Software Load Balancer, TCO, Elastic Scale
Swarna Podila
Posted on Jul 18, 2016 5:37:55 PM
Cisco Live is a conference that we look forward to attending every year. This event gathers network administrators and networking into one physical network, er, I mean, physical location.
Topics: Cisco Live, Analytics, Troubleshooting, automation, TCO
