Damballa, a network security monitoring company, announced that its failsafe threat detection platform now integrates with Palo Alto Network’ Panorama network security management platform and Next-Generation Firewalls. Damballa Failsafe 6.0 uses a distributed computing architecture, which offers new detection modules,
Over the past several years, there’s been an emerging trend in the networking industry that has been heading away from physical infrastructure and towards virtual/cloud environments. As a result, open source router software has begun to shift the tides, challenging
Since its inception in 2001, HAproxy has grown to become one of the most widely used open source load balancers on the market. It was designed specifically as a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based
Given the burgeoning market for SD-WAN solutions, Cisco and the way of the router has been looking like yesterday’s news, but they announced this week that they have invested in VeloCloud’s SD-WAN solution. According to VeloCloud, Cisco is integrating its
Apache Traffic Server is high performance web proxy-caching server known for its use by Yahoo!, processing over 30,000 requests per second and serving more than 30 billion web objects a day across the Yahoo! network. Since its inception as an
EdgeConneX Launches Data Center in Amsterdam With developments in streaming 4K content, interactive gaming, industrial IoT, and the explosion of cloud computing, more and more infrastructure is needed in proximity to end users, and today EdgeConneX announced that they will
When it comes to web server software, Nginx has quickly been closing the gap set by rival Apache with an estimated 21% of the top one million busiest websites on the Internet today using Nginx software. Nginx performs all the
Varnish has been on the rise as one of the world’s leading reverse proxy servers with high profile sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo all using the Varnish software. In this article, we’ll break down the key specifics that
The Future of 5G Wireless CEO of Ericsson, Hans Vestberg estimates that commercial 5G networks should be available around 2018, with more than 10 spots around the world already testing early versions that show latency below 10 milliseconds, compared to
When building a CDN, companies have several options in terms of choosing an open source caching platform to help deliver their content to users with speed, security and reliability. While none of these proxy servers can be exclusively titled a
EdgeConnex Opens New Data Center with Comcast as Anchor Tenant EdgeConnex, a data center operator that specializes in edge data centers, has landed Comcast as their anchor tenant for a new center opening in Jacksonville, Florida. Due to Comcast’s new
