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 ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

The network load-balancing (NLB) vendor landscape has consolidated down to five major players and some niche alternative vendors. META Trend: Wide-area network services will transition toward IP VPNs ...

Poor man’s load balancing is properly called Round Robin DNS. Using this technique, you set up a series of A records in DNS, each with the same name, but pointing to a different IP address. As an ...

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 ...