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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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With the new release, solution providers can offer customers high availability, scalability, security and enhanced performance for applications such as SIP-based voice over IP, Web services or mobile ...

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 ...

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 ...

Security firm F-Secure has issued a warning about security issues in some common configurations for F5 Networks’ Big-IP load balancer. According to the security firm’s researchers, unless addressed, ...