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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Admins seeking a secret weapon in Windows environments should look no further than network load balancing, an often underutilized capability built right into Windows Server, and one that’s easy to ...

I recently implemented a Thinstation/Terminal Services-based system that allows our organization to use thinclients attached to LCD displays to display Powerpoint slides throughout the building. After ...

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 ...

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 ...

You might have noticed that the network was down a couple weeks ago. Okay, let's be honest, of course you noticed. When the network is down there is always a huge impact on campus. This time around a ...

Poor man’s load balancing is properly called Round Robin DNS. Using this technique, you set up a series of A records in DNS, each with the same name, but pointing to a different IP address. As an ...