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 ...

Load balancers have been a core part of application infrastructure since the mid-1990s. The load balancer, located between the application layer and network infrastructure, ensures high application ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...