Comparisons — Finding the right solution for your use case

If you're an F5 customer thinking of moving to an alternative, then you're not alone.

Citrix customers have been jumping ship in their hundreds, if not thousands, to this lesser-known competitor.

There are so many benefits to moving away from the F5 LTM i2600, you'd be crazy not to at least explore your options.

At the very least, this blog should save you hours of Googling!

I built a parallel Loadbalancer Enterprise configuration alongside the existing Citrix NetScaler load balancer.

To save you some time, here's a quick summary of how F5, Progress Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org compare on the big three: price, features, and ease of use.

Why is Loadbalancer.org the market leader in load balancing medical imaging applications? And what DON'T you get from F5?

Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions.

There are a whole host of factors that will influence your choice. However, what I've tried to do here is pull together some key questions you'll need to think about, based on my personal experience, to help you articulate what you need.

Which model will meet your needs, and are the established "worse is better" and "right is better" philosophies still relevant?

The first question we always ask our customers is: "are you looking for performance, reliability, maintainability — or all three?"

This is not a blog telling you what appliance you should buy. It's simply a blog explaining the core differences, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Working with this Snapt customer to support them with the urgent migration of all their critical applications.

Growing customer demands are forcing technology providers to reconsider their approach to high availability and scalability.

The only real reason for separate network ports is physical redundancy. Because the other primary reason (security segregation) can be easily implemented using VLANs.

Network Security devices such as firewalls, WAF, SWG, IPS etc. are often deployed inline with bridge mode., which has two major problems.

There’s no doubt that the software adoption trend for load balancers is increasing - and the likelihood is that this will continue. After all, it makes sense right?

We've had a lot of frustrated F5 customers talk to us recently about the pain they are suffering,

This question came up here the other day and, while I do not recommend this approach, I thought it would be worth exploring in a blog post, explaining when and how it could be done.

How do you successfully evaluate a load balancer? We’ve compiled some of the key considerations when trialling any new software product…

Look, let’s make this very clear, we love F5, we think they are awesome, the best ADC in the market. But sometimes they make you want to cry!

The need for speed has always been one of mankind's greatest loves.

With a big, powerful and expensive ADC load balancer, there can be a strong temptation to load balance multiple applications – but when uptime is critical, could it become a single point of failure?

Our expertise enabled an IT services provider to ensure reliability and high availability service for existing and new customers.

Need your object storage system to be highly available, reliable and scalable? We've got you covered. Check out the most important things you need to know when load balancing your storage architecture.