October 21, 2012
Beginners guide to Software Defined Networking (SDN)
One of the hot topics at IP Expo London this year has been the rise of SDN, an emerging architecture that’s got the potential to deliver a huge paradigm shift in the industry but what’s it all about and why does it matter? The problem with current network architecture is…
September 26, 2012
TriScale Scale In – An introduction to NetScaler SDX
One of 3 posts looking at the NetScaler TriScale messaging – Scale In (SDX only) If you’re not familiar with the difference between MPX & SDX very simply MPX offers a single NetScaler in a physical appliance. SDX offers multiple NetScalers in a single physical appliance. As organisations grow and look to support…
September 26, 2012
Up, in and out….Scale Out
SDX appliances now support clustering with 10.1 release. In the other ‘Up, In & Out’posts I’ve covered Scale Up and Scale In as part of NetScaler TriScale. Here’s an overview Scale Outwhich is available with a Cluster Licence on the MPX & VPX appliances. Scaling upMPX appliances has its limitations due to the actual hardware. Once an MPX7500 (1GB) has been upgraded…
September 24, 2012
NetScaler TriScale – Up, in and out…. Scale Up
In this post I’m looking at the messaging around NetScaler TriScale and more importantly if the marketing team at Citrix have just come up with a catchy tag line or if there’s any serious use cases… As the name suggests, TriScale offers three methods of scaleability for organisations that have…
