Performance — Make your applications work harder

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world.

I've been repeatedly asked how our load balancers scale. So, I have decided to write down your options for endlessly scalable, high-performance load balancing.

The single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) interface is an extension to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification. SR-IOV allows a device, such as a network adapter, to separate access to its resources among various PCIe hardware functions.

Transceivers are known by many names: combination transmitters/receivers, optical transceivers, optics, fiber optic transceivers, Gigabit Interface Converters (GBICS), 'that bit you plug into your fiber port'.

Load balancing? Say what?! Got 2 mins to get your head around the concept? Your time starts....now!

As you know, we get excited about solutions, not semantics, so I'm going to go against the grain here and say 'Application Acceleration' is one of those buzzwords that's about as useful as all that designer water that's out there these days.

The topic of hardware replacement, trade-in, and upgrade options is rife with opinions, bad habits, and rules of thumb. It gets even more complicated when you consider how your choices are affected by your vendor's randomly changing end-of-life policies.

For the uninitiated, layer 4 DR mode is a high performance load balancing method available on our appliances. It works by having all response traffic flow from the servers straight back to the clients.

Hands up here who is guilty of making that “simple” code change in a production environment, only to find it has broken some other functionality?

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?

I should really say that not every request of this type can be turned around on the same day - but we do try!

Why on earth would I want to use Professional Services when I can use Support instead? Here we outline the differences and when you'd want to engage them.

I ran into a problem recently where a customer was working to load balance NFS to their scale-out NAS product, they were saying that it mounted fine but “showmount -e” just wouldn’t work properly from their Linux client.

There's an urgent need to digitize pathology services globally – and, in the UK in particular, the introduction of new digital pathology methods is considered a priority.

For businesses struggling with web congestion due to heavy usage, using a reverse proxy is the right solution.

Hidden in data centers around the world, there are millions of load balancers that keep businesses and their applications fully functional 24/7 – making sure users enjoy a seamless and uninterrupted high-quality experience at every single click.

Loadbalancer.org helps Konica Minolta optimize its print management solutions and improve end-user experience.

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world. But why – and when – should you use it?

With more and more transactions taking place online, retailers have come under increasing pressure to ensure consistent and reliable online transactions to a growing number of shoppers.

Our expertise enabled an international service company to ensure reliability and high availability of its business-critical SAP systems.

A specialist IT services provider in the education market, Scomis provides hosted application services for over 600 primary and secondary schools across 19 local authority areas.

One of the most clinically-significant healthcare innovations of the last few decades, PACS has changed the architecture of the modern radiology department for good.

Find out how we helped Fluid Networks deliver easy access and scalability.

Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it.

What is FHIR? What makes it the hottest topic of discussion in healthcare IT? How does the future of healthcare look like with this new standard in place? Let us tell you in our latest blog!