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 ...

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 ...

Gateway Load Balancer makes life easier by providing a single gateway for distributing traffic evenly through the network and scaling virtual appliances up and down, based on demand, Yun said.

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

AWS Gateway Load Balancer is a new fully-managed network gateway and load balancer. The service is tailored to deploy, scale and manage third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion ...

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 ...

A networking startup wants to make deploying Internet applications easier by combining load balancing and SSL in a single switch.

A third paper from Alibaba describes [PDF] “Nezha”, a distributed vSwitch load sharing system that works on SmartNICs – the CPU-equipped network cards that hyperscalers use to run networking and ...