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 ...

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 ...

I have a couple of questions about load balancing (NLB) with W2K Advanced Server. These questions have probably been asked before. <BR>1. After setting them up are they only seen on the network as the ...

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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 ...

When applications are aware of like-configured systems providing the same services, it is a beautiful thing. The most frequent example is a Web service that has a number of VMs providing the same Web ...

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 ...

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Many of my clients frequently ask me to explain the high availability alternatives included in Windows Server 2008. Basically, you are looking at either Failover Clustering or Network Load Balancing.

Here's the deal. We had a small project where we were dropping new IIS serevrs behind an F5. Client wants to scale back now (as of 20 minutes ago) and remove the F5 from the equation. What exactly are ...