PolyServe develops software for server clustering and load balancing, and the two companies hope to tap into the growing market for ebusiness reliability products. McAfee Understudy and McAfee LocalCluster will offer IP service monitoring, failure...
Virtualisation can be a major catalyst for consolidating the disparate servers and computing devices in a data centre, as it enables more tasks to be done with less equipment. In doing so, an F5 solution can be used for load balancing, inspecting...
A new element in the updated IOS is improved protection against denial of service attacks, which flood networks with millions of packets causing routers and servers to freeze under the pressure. The company also announced new management...
The software code, written by a group of teenagers in Italy calling themselves the "BlackAngels," exploits nine vulnerabilities found in Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS). Bugs in Cisco's IOS software are common, and the company often...
A feature called the Stack Group Bidding Protocol in certain versions of IOS is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable denial of service condition, according to a company advisory. Cisco also patched a vulnerability in its Internetwork Operating...
One of the products highlighted by Moss was the Citrix Netscaler, which is a load balancing appliance that is capable of managing network traffic on the application layer. All of the networking gear is Cisco and Citrix Netscalers are used to load...