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 ...

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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Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

Hey all, I have a client site that is running Ex2010 SP1 on 2 multi-role VMs in a DAG, for about 400 mailboxes across two DBs. The VMs are also HA via Hyper-V cluster. Currently, VM1 is hosting the ...

With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and ...

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Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta.… The networking giant quit load balancers in 2012 when it decided to stop ...

A trend that has grown over the past decade or so to become pretty much the default view of infrastructure is to “software-ize” functionality that was formerly the domain of specialist hardware. It ...