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Migrate your load balancer to virtual or cloud for FREE – our new license Richard Halcrow
If you think migrating your load balancers to virtual or cloud would cost you big bucks, we've got some good news. Our Freedom License offers customers seamless migration – absolutely free!

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Reviews and Comparisons
Why choosing a load balancer with no end-of-life (EOL) is important George Booth
So many companies enforce end-of-life (EOL) on their products, but our customers are free to choose when to upgrade their appliances. Unlike our competitors, we don’t EOL our products.

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Healthcare
FHIR: the key to unlocking interoperability in EHR? Himakshi Goswami
What is FHIR? What makes it the hottest topic of discussion in healthcare IT? How does the future of healthcare look like with this new standard in place? Let us tell you in our latest blog!

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How-To's
Smart, secure encryption with SNI Neil Stone
As the Internet continues to grow, so do the potential dangers of communicating important information. Gone are the ‘good old days’ where there was an implicit level of trust between users, and as a result, there has been a significant uptake in the requirement to secure data transmission online...

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Object Storage
Load balancing: The driving force behind successful object storage Himakshi Goswami
Do you know that your Kindle is spying on you? It knows how fast you read a book, how many pages you read, at which point you stopped reading and which passages you have bookmarked.

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Huawei root access is BAD! VERY, VERY BAD: Or, how we reasoned ourselves out of root access by default Malcolm Turnbull
As you probably know, the notorious Chinese tech company was blacklisted by Google on the instructions of the Trump administration. All this high-profile paranoia about security got me thinking about our approach to the subject as we prepare to release v8.3.7 of the load balancer appliance...

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Print
Printing without pain: How to scale print environments and avoid downtime Imannuel Graham
Print environments often bring together multiple technologies and applications, which can present challenges. There’s the issue of planned downtime: end-users may need to make manual changes to their network when print services fail, taking servers out of production for maintenance or updates...

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Healthcare
The need for load balancing in medical imaging PACSman - Michael Cannavo
Medical information and imaging systems are expected to operate like a luxury automobile. You get in, turn the key, it starts and takes you to where you want to go. It’s not about what’

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Amazon AWS
Amazon AWS
Hardware, virtual, or cloud: how we help customers migrate seamlessly across platforms Richard Halcrow
In this ever-evolving business world, flexibility is the key to long-term success. With the rise of digitalization in organizations, are you looking to migrate your IT infrastructure from the existing platform and try something new? Learn how we can help you in this, and beyond.

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Reviews and Comparisons
Reviews and Comparisons
What's the best 10G switch upgrade path - 40G or 25G? Ged Ward
How do we choose between the varying Ethernet technologies? We explore the simplest and most cost effective upgrade path.

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HAProxy
HAProxy
Loadbalancer.org releases Open Source SNMP MIB and Agent for HAProxy Peter Statham
We’re always keen to give back to the community that writes such great software – our new SNMP agents and MIBs for HAProxy make monitoring your Virtual Services and Real Servers a breeze.

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Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Making a leading charity’s email system secure, accessible and reliable Rosalind Bootle
Our expertise enabled a leading charity utilise their Microsoft Exchange email system making it easily accessible, secure, scalable and reliable.

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Reviews and Comparisons
Reviews and Comparisons
DC (direct current) powered application delivery: an energy-saving game changer for the data center industry? Himakshi Goswami
The AC versus DC debate is ongoing. Find out which power supply works best when it comes to the modern day data center – and why.

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Healthcare
Healthcare
How this healthcare provider delivers secure, flexible access to clinical applications Rosalind Bootle
Our expertise enabled the organization to improve clinician access to data from third-party sites.

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News
COVID-19: Keeping businesses flowing during the pandemic Malcolm Turnbull
Whether your organization is starting a slow return to normality or still working within enforced restrictions – we’re as committed as ever to keeping your business flowing during this period of uncertainty.

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Healthcare
Healthcare
How load balancers optimize PACS performance in radiology Himakshi Goswami
Understand the role of load balancing in PACS and how it ultimately helps deliver better patient care.

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Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Secure connections: encrypt, inspect and decrypt traffic when using a WAF Neil Stone
Protect both web servers and users, with this combination of layers and tools.

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HAProxy
HAProxy
How to tackle bugs and vulnerabilities – a solutions architect’s opinion Himakshi Goswami
Dealing with bugs and vulnerabilities is quite common in the tech space. Aaron West, the head of Solutions at Loadbalancer.org shares some insights about our approach of tackling such issues, and more.

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Healthcare
Healthcare
How this IT solutions provider delivered a stable, scalable cloud-based platform Rosalind Bootle
Cloud-based computing in patient management care requires easy access and scalability – find out how we helped Fluid Networks deliver exactly that.

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News
News
Migrate your load balancer to virtual or cloud for FREE – our new license Richard Halcrow
If you think migrating your load balancers to virtual or cloud would cost you big bucks, we've got some good news. Our Freedom License offers customers seamless migration – absolutely free!

3 min read

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Print
Print
Load balancing PaperCut Version 20 Imannuel Graham
PaperCut v20 has made great strides with high availability and failover capabilities - find out how to get the most out of your PaperCut print environment.

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Healthcare
Healthcare
How an NHS trust keeps critical medical systems up and running at all times Rosalind Bootle
The use of digital imaging within the Healthcare industry is exploding at an unprecedented rate. Find out how we helped an NHS trust achieve zero downtime for its PACS.

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How-To's
How-To's
How to YAML your load balancer deployment Andrew Smalley
Code for a new API interface to take YAML and post it to an LBCLI command.

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Security
Security
Healthcare IT should listen to Amazon's Werner Vogels: “Dance Like Nobody’s Watching. Encrypt Like Everyone Is” Aaron West
Find out why Werner Vogels' comments ring especially true for healthcare data.

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Reviews and Comparisons
Reviews and Comparisons
Why choosing a load balancer with no end-of-life (EOL) is important George Booth
So many companies enforce end-of-life (EOL) on their products, but our customers are free to choose when to upgrade their appliances. Unlike our competitors, we don’t EOL our products.

4 min read

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HAProxy
HAProxy
Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but… Andrew Howe
Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it.

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Object Storage
Object Storage
How load balancing helps to store and protect petabytes of data Himakshi Goswami
There's a reason we call ourself the experts in the storage industry. Read our blog to know how Loadbalancer.org's expertise with Cloudian HyperStore helped the University of Leicester store and protect massive amount of sensitive research data .

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How-To's
How-To's
How to automate load balancer deployments, Part 2! Andrew Smalley
For our v8.4.1 release we added network, routing and HA functions to LBCLI, allowing you to completely automate the entire deployment from initial power-on to a fully configured HA pair.

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Healthcare
Healthcare
FHIR: the key to unlocking interoperability in EHR? Himakshi Goswami
What is FHIR? What makes it the hottest topic of discussion in healthcare IT? How does the future of healthcare look like with this new standard in place? Let us tell you in our latest blog!

6 min read

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How-To's
How-To's
How to load balance VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with HAProxy Andrei Grigoras
Want to configure a load balancer for VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG)? Let's help you out.

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Security
Security
Update on HAproxy HTTP/2 HPACK Decoder Vulnerability (2 April 2020) Tom Hopkins
A critical vulnerability in HAProxy’s HTTP/2 HPACK decoder in versions 1.8 and above has been discovered. This does not impact the majority of Loadbalancer.org customers.

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News
News
Why Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and PlayStation reducing their traffic won’t save the Internet Tom Hopkins
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Disney and Apple recently began streaming content at lower bit rates - but is it actually improving performance or just good PR?

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How-To's
How-To's
Top tips for zero downtime when you work from home Himakshi Goswami
With work-from-home becoming the new reality, employees across organizations look for useful techniques to do it the right way. From setting up your own home office to staying productive, we bring you the top tips to manage it like a pro!

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Events
Events
Do we still need International Women’s Day (IWD)? Karen Turnbull
International Women's Day (IWD): Does it still matter? Let's hear it from Karen Turnbull, co-founder and COO of Loadbalancer.org!

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Events
Events
Talking free and open-source at FOSDEM 2020 Peter Statham
Peter Statham talks about how it was to be a part of the 20th edition of FOSDEM - Europe's biggest free and open-source event!

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