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 ...

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 ...

The load balancers take communications addressed to a single virtual IP address, and share them out amongst a large fleet of back-end servers, so each users requests go consistently to a single server ...

AWS expanded the Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) service with a new product catered to high-performing applications. The Network Load Balancer is a Layer 4 TCP component designed to handle bursts of ...

The value of network load balancing NLB’s value resides in clustering. With it, you can create a cluster of machines aimed at providing high availability and load balancing.

But as the economy stood still, networking hardware vendors moved forward with advances in the traffic management hardware space, often segmented as Layer 4-7 networking devices. Load balancers ...

Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems.

Gateway Load Balancer is a fully-managed service enabling enterprises to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third-party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure. Microsoft recently ...

Coyote Point Systems aims to help administrators increase ROI by delivering load balancing appliances that work with virtualization technologies.

The social network has previously shared a lot of design principles and open-sourced network switch hardware and software through the Open Compute Project, which it founded in 2011. The latest item to ...