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.

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 ...

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 ...

As enterprises continue their move to multi-cloud environments, data centres are becoming more distributed and security risks are increasing. To address this new environment, EfficientIP – the network ...

Reverse proxy startup ngrok Inc. today debuted a GSLB, or global server load balancing, tool that promises to speed up application response times and reduce the risk of outages. The network traffic ...

Digital infrastructure does a lot of heavy lifting. It delivers the responsiveness and availability demanded by enterprise applications which are being placed across multiple data centers (on-premise, ...