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 ...

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 ...

The situation is we use F5 Big-IP 1500 load balancers, however the one in our lab is an older model that only has 786MB of memory. The 1500's we use in production are the newer model's with 2GB of ...

For service acceleration, network protection, and other capabilities that go beyond simple load balancing, go with the F5 Networks Big IP switch. It's more expensive than the WebMux Pro, but provides ...

Tests show that deploying malware in a persistent manner on load balancer firmware is within reach of less sophisticated attackers. Over the past several years, hackers have targeted public-facing ...

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 G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to ...