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.

While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the availability and performance of applications is paramount. Modern infrastructures require robust solutions to distribute traffic efficiently and ...

With application owners seeking public cloud-like simplicity and flexibility in their own data centers, IT teams are under pressure to deliver services and resolve application issues quickly, while ...

Brien answers some common questions related to Hyper-V's SET capability, from how to configure virtual machines to use SET to determining your load balancing algorithm. In Part 1 of this series, I ...

On Tuesday, I had an interesting telephone interview with Kevin Mahon, CEO of KEMP Technologies. I have to admit that I don't usually think of load balancers as SMB product, but KEMP has been making a ...

In July, Brandeis University began using the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) to manage Moodle, an open-source program for building online learning sites. The ACE module, installed in a Cisco ...

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 ...