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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

Load balancing technology, which took off in 1990s with the rise of the Internet, continues to find behind-the-scenes work in the enterprise – including a supporting role in the current mobile boom.

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.

ngrok, the API-first Ingress-as-a-Service platform, is debuting the ngrok Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), a traffic distributor that enhances the performance and resiliency of applications ...

In windows server 2003 there is a feature built into the TCP/IP networking and IIS that allows for network load balaning to happen between two servers, without dedicated load balancing hardware e.g, ...

Buried inside the news from the VMware Explore event were a series of security related updates. The big headline was the expansion of security for AI, but there is more to the story. A core element of ...

Free load balancers present an excellent opportunity to maximize performance without breaking the budget if you're seeking a solid solution to improve the security and efficiency of your network.