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Silver Peak hits new WAN-optimization heights You know what makes network administrators happy? Making efficient use of their equipment and eliminating "performance stinks" calls from end-users. Thus, investing in an effective WAN optimization and acceleration solution such as Silver Peak NX-5500 2.0 can put a big smile on your network admin's face. Exclusive: Juniper DX3680 boosts Web sites' speed and reliability The days of the proprietary client are waning fast, as more and more enterprise applications become Web-enabled or entirely Web-based. Critical applications from e-mail to CRM to custom internal apps are all running on either internal or external Web sites, and they need both quick response times and fault tolerance.  April 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Load balancers from F5 Networks and Zeus Technology tip the scales 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 sophistication of Web sites and enterprise intranets, current load balancers add a plethora of additional features, from SSL off-loading to Web application acceleration to content inspection and security filters that guard against hackers exploiting known vulnerabilities to gain control of Web servers or applications. May 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Zeus lightens the load balancing Zeus Technology has been shipping a load balancing product for a number of years, originally available as software only, and now as an appliance. The Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) 7000 with Version 4 of the ZXTM software shows a level of maturity that experienced administrators will find comforting. It offers an easy, wizard-based configuration for beginners, command-line access for advanced users, and a dedicated scripting language that allows extensive adaptation to changing conditions in traffic control or load balancing. The new software also adds Web content caching and an XML/SOAP API. January 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Hardware isn't enough IT buyers live in a golden age of commodity hardware. Processors, servers, networks, storage, you name it: Every segment of the IT stack keeps getting faster, cheaper, and more commoditized. No surprise, then, that IT managers often resort to a checkbook-waving strategy, throwing hardware at every IT problem, from a balky WAN to an application speed bump. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Put your load testers to work To enable predictive and scalable performance, a testing strategy should be injected throughout the development lifecycle. November 21, 3:00 a.m. PST Prep your Web apps for stellar performances High-performance Web sites and apps don't happen accidentally. A detailed performance and scalability testing strategy is needed throughout the development lifecycle -- and that requires a good load-testing solution. November 21, 3:00 a.m. PST Coyote Point Equalizer balances loads with finesse The Coyote Point Equalizer E350 is a great example of a product that performs a basic function — load balancing — and does it well. Simpler than the other two appliances I tested, the E350 costs about 80 percent less. June 18, 3:00 p.m. PDT Redline and NetScaler unburden networks The load-balancing market grows more complex every year. Appliances that used to simply distribute incoming client requests to a virtual cluster of Web servers for improved fault tolerance and better scalability now provide several types of Web-site acceleration, security, and more. June 18, 3:00 p.m. PDT > Networking |
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