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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not everyone using BIG-IP will be affected, but the load balancer’s popularity amongst banks, governments, and other entities that provide online services to large numbers of people, combined with the ...

F5 is integrating its SSL VPN gear with its load-balancing, traffic management hardware to turn the SSL device into a central policy and access enforcement point. With a new release of software for ...

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 ...

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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, ...