Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

The company I work for has tasked me implementing redundancy in some of our publically facing systems. I recently built pairs of web and application servers, and need to implement a form of hardware ...

Load balancing a network is a task that many administrators often overlook—to the detriment of their networks—even in the smallest of environments. Generally, poor network performance is treated by ...

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While VMware has been making a lot of news in recent weeks, thanks in no small part to the disruption after it was acquired by Broadcom, the company is still building out new capabilities. “Avi ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

A trend that has grown over the past decade or so to become pretty much the default view of infrastructure is to “software-ize” functionality that was formerly the domain of specialist hardware. It ...

Experts from analyst firm Quocirca examine the changing nature of enterprise IT strategy and offer advice to IT leaders. Load Balancing (LB), is now popping up on the corporate security agenda! LB is ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

Efficient network traffic management is crucial for the performance of any organization. Load balancers are essential tools that distribute traffic across servers, preventing any single machine from ...