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Richard is the Inbound Sales Team Manager at Loadbalancer.org where he and his team are responsible for working with prospective and existing customers from across the globe. Richard's top priority as a manager is to make sure that customers are satisfied and happy. As well as managing the sales team, Richard also organises the events at Loadbalancer.org.

How to manage all your load balancers from one simple web based platform

How to manage all your load balancers from one simple web based platform

We're super excited to announce the expansion of our portfolio, offering a broader range of Application Delivery solutions; namely our new, vendor-agnostic Application Delivery Platform, the Loadbalancer ADC Portal...

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What load balancer? Compare F5, Citrix, A10, Radware, NGINX, HAProxy Enterprise, AVI Networks, Progress Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org

What load balancer? Compare F5, Citrix, A10, Radware, NGINX, HAProxy Enterprise, AVI Networks, Progress Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org

At the very least, this blog should save you hours of Googling!..

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ADC centralized management for enhanced security

ADC centralized management for enhanced security

You need a clear, comprehensive view of your entire load balancing estate to maintain control and security...

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High Availability

Things to consider when buying a load balancer

There are a whole host of factors that will influence your choice. However, what I've tried to do here is pull together some key questions you'll need to think about, based on my personal experience, to help you articulate what you need...

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What transceiver do I need for my load balancer?

Transceivers are known by many names: combination transmitters/receivers, optical transceivers, optics, fiber optic transceivers, Gigabit Interface Converters (GBICS), 'that bit you plug into your fiber port'...

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What is the difference between a hardware and virtual load balancer?

This is not a blog telling you what appliance you should buy. It's simply a blog explaining the core differences, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each...

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When should you get a hardware replacement? After 3, 5, or 17 years...?

When should you get a hardware replacement? After 3, 5, or 17 years...?

The topic of hardware replacement, trade-in, and upgrade options is rife with opinions, bad habits, and rules of thumb. It gets even more complicated when you consider how your choices are affected by your vendor's randomly changing end-of-life policies...

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How to get the most out of your FREE TRIAL: successfully evaluating a load balancer

How to get the most out of your FREE TRIAL: successfully evaluating a load balancer

How do you successfully evaluate a load balancer? We’ve compiled some of the key considerations when trialling any new software product…..

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How to calculate the true cost of downtime to your organization

High Availability

How to calculate the true cost of downtime to your organization

There’s one constant when it comes to downtime: whether the outage is expected or not, without access to systems or applications, your organization will probably experience some sort of pain...

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Hardware, virtual, or cloud: how we help customers migrate seamlessly across platforms

Hardware, virtual, or cloud: how we help customers migrate seamlessly across platforms

In this ever-evolving business world, flexibility is the key to long-term success...

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Migrate your load balancer to virtual or cloud for FREE – our new license

Migrate your load balancer to virtual or cloud for FREE – our new license

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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Kemp Technologies vs F5 — a refreshingly honest load balancer comparison

Kemp Technologies vs F5 — a refreshingly honest load balancer comparison

If you are trying to decide which load balancer product is right for your business, you’ve probably already discovered that it’s a market of two extremes...

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IP EXPO Europe 2016

IP EXPO Europe 2016

We engaged in some great conversations with people over the two days. This is why we love IP EXPO - talking through the problems customers are experiencing today...

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Cloud Expo Europe 2016

Cloud Expo Europe 2016

We met lots of people and gave away a lot of lanyards...in fact the show organizers ran out of lanyards, so Loadbalancer.org were happy to fill the void...

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IP EXPO Europe 2015 - Thank you to everyone who visited our stand

IP EXPO Europe 2015 - Thank you to everyone who visited our stand

Thank you to everyone who visited our stand at IP Expo 2015...

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