Load balancers used to be fairly simple, distributing user requests from the Internet to a group of servers instead of just one. Between the drive to differentiate themselves and the increasing ...

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This software conducts load balancing virtually for less than a physical appliance. A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to increase the overall ...

Greetings - <BR>We're about to build out a second cluster of web servers (for geographic redundancy using round-robin DNS in a second colo) and I'm looking into a load balancer setup for the second ...

F5 is integrating its SSL VPN gear with its load-balancing, traffic management hardware to turn the SSL device into a central policy and access enforcement point. With a new release of software for ...

A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to increase the overall capability of a system to handle heavy traffic or to increase fault tolerance so that no ...

Switch maker F5 Networks last week upgraded its Internet traffic, content and network management products that could give users better ways to speed and manage their e-commerce infrastructure. The ...

A blade system without a load balancer would be like Chicago’s O’Hare without air traffic control. One of the core applications for server blades is to serve as the front end to Web hosting, firewalls ...

Logan Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist. A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to increase the overall capability of a system to handle heavy ...

Logan G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to ...