Despite Rumors to the Contrary F5 Remains In the Lead

We interrupt your regularly scheduled dose of geek for a brief but important message Every year a variety of application delivery vendors sit around, wringing their hands, waiting for Gartner to release its latest Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers. No matter how much weight you personally put on Gartner’s – or any other analyst firms’ – opinion on the subject of who is and is not a leader, there is plenty of evidence to prove out the belief that if you aren’t at least on the Magic Quadrant you aren’t even getting your foot in the door...

Please fasten your seatbelts, there’s turbulence in that there cloud

There is no evidence, no research, no surveys that indicate the cloud is, or ever will be, ready to completely outsource an organization’s data center. There’s no reason to even believe that’s the goal of cloud providers, though it might seem a logical conclusion. So making outrageous claims about the capabilities of the cloud, and the relevance of the data center, does no one any good. What’s got me so riled up? This particular statement from a prediction for 2009 from Appirio: But all this talk about “private clouds” is a distraction from...