v.10: WebAccelerator Enhancements

The BIG-IP WebAccelerator joins ranks with the Local Traffic Manager and the Global Traffic Manager as modules that received some major upgrades with version 10.  Not familiar with the WebAccelerator?  Affectionately called WA in these parts, the WebAccelerator is "an advanced Web application delivery solution that provides a series of intelligent technologies that overcome performance issues involving browsers, Web application platforms, and WAN latency."  That's straight from the glossy, I couldn't say it any better than that.  The DevCentral team has been filming a documentary series (Real IT, check it out!) on speeding up the site for our users in...

Load Balancers are Dead...Oh Really?

I read several articles this morning declaring that load balancers days are numbered.  I wish this were true, and it should be true, but no amount of press can prevent organizations from continuing to resurrect the "King." Much like those who continue to hand money over at the box office to the Jason & Freddy franchises, as long as companies fork lift the old and insert the new without any forethought into what might be possible with a new platform, they will continue to deploy load balancers in load-balancing replacement projects, no matter how powerful the shiny new application delivery...