Articles In Infrastructure

By Josh Ledford, Posted in Infrastructure

I get asked about GSLB quite often, so I thought I would hammer this out. Let me know what you guys think. And full disclosure, I am a NetScaler kind of guy. You can ask me about other solutions, but in my opinion, nothing does this as well as NetScaler. Again, solely my opinion. So let’s start with the basics - general load balancing is a service that distributes requests evenly across backend resources. This can be done for a variety for reasons: performance, disaster scenarios, high availability, etc.... read more.

• October 29, 2015

By Ken Phelan, Posted in Infrastructure

Facebook announced a program this week to have their employees live with 2G data access speeds on Tuesdays (2G Tuesdays). This gives their employees perspective on what it’s like to use Facebook in an emerging market like India. I love this. How many times have you complained to a developer about the speed of their product only to hear them tell you how great the product performs for them? Well, good for you and your super-high-end PC with the local data store. A few years ago, I abandoned my noteb... read more.

• October 28, 2015

By Hank Smith, Posted in Infrastructure

Citrix announced the release of XenMobile 10 this past January although it was officially available for download in February. XenMobile 10 brings some new features and some much needed enhancements. New Features and Enhancements I will not go over all the new stuff (you can read that here), however I do want to go over the new features and enhancements that I have heard many customers requesting. XenMobile Server – Citrix combined the AppController and XenMobile Device Manager server into a single... read more.

• March 04, 2015