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 ...

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 ...

Savvy network managers are using open-source software to provision new, inexpensive virtual servers, fueling the exponential growth of server clusters, server farms and Web applications. However, just ...

In the last newsletter, we discussed our mostly-successful results from the initial testing of a router designed to use two broadband Internet service interfaces – such as using both cable modem and ...

The outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday originated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia).

Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems. Google is known to fiercely guard its data center secrets ...

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The disruption is reported to be linked to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud network that hosts and powers numerous apps ...