Re: Third party certifications for LB

Ravi,

 

I think you are spot on, however, I also think this is a pretty daunting
task.  As you suggest, the number of features/functions being added into the
ADC realm is becoming pretty significant.  There are some pretty significant
'scope' issues here: no one agrees on which features should be or are
incorporated into ADC.

 

Personally, I would think that relying on the same certifications as the
originating product/feature set is the first place to start.  If an ADC
incorporates a web-application firewall or a network-layer firewall, then
that component should probably continue to participate in the same
certification programs.  The difficulty, of course, is that once all these
features are put together, you can start doing new and interesting things
that simply couldn't be done before.  It's when these once disparate
features start to intermingle that we start to have a really big problem-as
there won't be any set standards at all.

 

An interesting discussion though-I guess it boils down to this: do we need
to test/certify the entire suite of functionality/features or should we
test/certify agreed upon functionality separately?

 

KJ (Ken) Salchow, Jr.  |  Manager, Technical Marketing

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Ravi Kumar
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [load balancing] Third party certifications for LB

 

With LBs evolving into ADCs, I believe thrid party certifications are
needed.

I have written in more detail about the need for certification.

http://netlb.blogspot.com/2009/03/need-for-third-party-certification.html

 

Thanks,

-Ravi Chunduru

 

On 3/23/09, Ravi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: 

Hi List,
   Are there any third party certifications for the load balancers?

I came across Tolly group which conducts tests when the vendor requests
them.
That too, Tolly group just concentrates on a given set of tests and will not
cover entire box and features wide.
And there is Gartner group classifying the lbs into magic quadrants based on
the feature set but does not depend on the test results.

The LB market lacks a genuine third party certification like NSS for
Intrusion prevention systems.

The third party certifications will help the customers to choose the best LB
based on the performance and test results rather than carried away with the
feature rich and marketing terminology.

Let me know if you come across such certifications or call up the need with
your reason for the certification of LB devices.

Thanks,
-Ravi Chunduru

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