A blade system without a load balancer would be like Chicago’s O’Hare without air traffic control. One of the core applications for server blades is to serve as the front end to Web hosting, firewalls ...

Logan Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist. A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to increase the overall capability of a system to handle heavy ...

Load balancers used to be fairly simple, distributing user requests from the Internet to a group of servers instead of just one. Between the drive to differentiate themselves and the increasing ...

Expanded partnership delivers tighter integration between Cisco ACI tools and F5 BIG-IP DNS software to improve application availability and performance for mutual customers. Cisco and F5 have ...