Musings on Application Delivery

If one of the drivers for moving to cloud-based applications is reducing costs, you should think twice about the placement of application security solutions.

There’s almost no way to avoid an…

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Every year a variety of application delivery vendors sit around, wringing their hands, waiting for Gartner to…

Infrastructure 2.0 requires collaboration. Collaboration requires the ability to communicate. The ability to communicate requires integration. But how that integration will happen may shape the…

Back in the day when I was actually allowed to write code for customers the pat answer to any code being returned from QA because of problems was a flat “but it works on my machine.” Alright,…

Understanding the various types of load balancing

When someone says “load balancing” the immediate reaction is usually to think of pools of servers and applications being load balanced to provide…

Business critical internal processing systems often require high-availability and fault tolerance, too.

Load balancing and application delivery is almost always associated with scaling out…

Isolation of resources in “the cloud” is moving providers toward hosted data centers and away from shared resource computing. Do we need to go back to the future and re-examine mainframe computing…

There’s more than one way to address the rapid rate of change in infrastructure supporting a dynamic environment.

We spend a lot of time talking about how software and systems and standards are…

Commoditized from solution to feature, from feature to function, load balancing is no longer a solution but rather a function of more advanced solutions that’s still an integral component for…

AJAX enables the use of network-side scripting enabled application delivery solutions to offload client-side functionality and improve capacity and performance of dynamic (Web 2.0/AJAX)…