InfoWorld RSS FeedInfoWorld - Information Technology News, Computer Networking & SecurityTest Center guide: Load balancers and application accelerators- June 30, 2008 Whether you call them application delivery controllers, application accelerators, application traffic managers, or just load balancers, the solutions for scaling out Web sites and improving the performance of Web applications have come a long way from their humble beginnings. The result is a great deal of choice in the marketplace, from bare-bones appliances with basic functionality to high-capacity switch-based systems that handle Web traffic in wildly sophisticated ways.http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Product review: Barracuda Load Balancer leads with value- June 30, 2008 Known for anti-spam appliances and firewalls, Barracuda Networks is relatively new to the load-balancing game. The company's series of load balancers span the range from a basic 10-server model that starts at $1,995 to an enterprise model with an entry price of $8,999 and that supports an unlimited number of servers and virtual clusters. As the models increase in size and cost, they also add some nice features. These include activepassive high availability that is extremely easy to set up, the..http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Product review: Kemp Load Master goes beyond the basics- June 30, 2008 Kemp Technologies' Load Master 1500 appliance sports three 10100 ports and a basic set of load-balancing features, so it competes with the likes of the Barracuda 240 at the lower end of the market. Like the Barracuda line, the Kemp family includes other models with additional features such as SSL acceleration, higher capacity, activepassive high availability, and up to eight gigabit ports. The Kemp systems are also very affordable, and go further beyond the basics than the Barracuda systems.http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Nirvanix puts NAS in the cloud- June 27, 2008 Network storage developer Nirvanix has developed cloud-based NAS -- a plan which lets users connect systems to Internet-located storage nodes via NFS, CIFS, or FTP.http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... WildPackets takes aim at 10Gig networks- June 27, 2008 WildPackets this week introduced a highly extensible data recorder for 10 Gigabit (10Gig) Ethernet networks, the latest sign that 10Gig networks are gaining wider acceptance, even among medium-size businesses.http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... Will WiMax impact your business this year- June 24, 2008 While WiMax&160;appears to be set for commercial deployment in some U.S. markets by year-end, the technology itself has been plagued by various fits and starts.http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... ICANN: Meddling with DNS poses security problem- June 24, 2008 The interception of Internet traffic to snoop on phone calls or track surfers&39; behavior is a hot topic -- but what&39;s keeping members of ICANN&39;s Security and Stability Advisory Committee up at night is the interception of traffic to and from sites that don&39;t even exist. They explained why in a session at ICANN&39;s public meeting in Paris on Monday.http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/arti... |