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 ...

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 ...

Many enterprise organizations are talking to IT staff about moving into the cloud environment and/or using virtual machines to take advantage of greater scalability. Being able to access more ...

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.

While many organizations are still trying to get their arms around cloud computing concepts and terminology, "cloud balancing" might seem like just one more piece of jargon to add to the confusion. In ...

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 ...

A vendor with traffic management gear designed for cost-conscious businesses is setting its sights a bit higher upstream with its latest release. Kemp Technologies has traditionally targeted small ...

The data traffic load at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, is enormous. The network supports approximately 30,000 users and 10,000 nodes spread across 24 buildings on five campuses.

Plenty of products. What are you doing at your primary site? F5 and Citrix are the other big players. I can tell you the Cisco CSM/ACE work as advertised, but you will pay for it. Basic load balancing ...

VMware on Wednesday announced enhancements to NSX Advanced Load Balancer, the distributed application delivery controller that it rolled out last year after acquiring Avi Networks. Here's a look at ...