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 ...

Load balancing and failover are crucial features in any Web service system, and you can spend a lot of money creating such systems. Today, we have an alternative that is definitely worth looking at if ...

GitHub will release as open source the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), its internally developed load balancer. GLB was originally built to accommodate GitHub’s need to serve billions of HTTP, Git, and SSH ...

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 ...

In today’s dynamic application landscape, delivering IT infrastructure that’s highly available, performant and secure is paramount for organizations of all sizes. Load balancers help achieve this by ...

One of the major selling points of SOA and cloud computing is that service consumers don't have to worry about the platform and hardware that the service is hosted on, be it somewhere else within the ...

We utilize a Fortigate 100D. I'm looking to increase our fail over ability. I realize that the 100D has that capability however currently we use WAN1 for web traffic [out to ISP] WAN2 for MPLS direct ...