High-frequency trading corporations and other organizations that conduct time-sensitive transactions rely on ultra-low latency Top of Rack (ToR) switches in their data center cloud environments. The Dell’Oro Group says that ToR switches generated more than $500 million in revenues in 2010 with the sector growing 300% in Q2 alone. To take advantage of this growing market opportunity, leading infrastructure vendors are all “racing to zero” and trying to differentiate themselves by delivering the lowest possible latency performance. Read more »

Enterprise and data center managers who have not been concerned with ‘testing’ in the past are in for a rude awakening now that we’re in the era of the cloud. Server virtualization and cloud computing are fast-moving, game-changing technologies that impact all parts of the data center from the servers themselves to the load balancing mechanisms and the converged fabric infrastructure. Read more »

Data centers that use virtual architectures require extremely intelligent, dynamic load balancing infrastructure to handle the enormous volume of concurrent sessions: Google’s reportedly clocks in at 300 million hits per day. Today’s top-end application delivery controllers (ADC) offload many computationally-intensive processes from servers, allowing data center operators to simplify their infrastructure and reduce maintenance costs. But add the processing complexities of managing high volumes of SSL sessions to ever-increasing bandwidth requirements, and the demands made on today’s ADCs become staggering. Read more »

Ixia’s IxLoad is a Finalist in this year's Best of Interop Awards in the Security category. The winner will be announced in a press release on Tuesday, May 10. This year, Best of Interop is hosted by InformationWeek Analytics. This acknowledgement underscores the critical importance that network security testing plays in today’s network and cloud environments.
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