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 ...

Admins seeking a secret weapon in Windows environments should look no further than network load balancing, an often underutilized capability built right into Windows Server, and one that’s easy to ...

Computer networking company Avi Networks Inc. is making its load balancing controller for multiple public clouds available starting today as software as a service. Avi said it’s trying to overcome the ...

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 ...

You don’t have to be a big company to have big load-balancing needs. Coyote Point Systems is aiming its new family of application acceleration and load balancing appliances at the midmarket, and it’s ...

With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and ...

If you’ve ever been an IT manager for a small business network, you’re aware of one simple fact: small and medium business (SMB) networks are generally something of a mess. Typically, they’re ...

You're talking about the difference between application load-balancing (like using Windows NLB between a couple web servers) and hardware load-balancing, like HP's Network Team software to team two ...