Rackspace’s cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability. Rackspace’s cloud ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

Many enterprise organizations are talking to IT staff about moving into the cloud environment and/or using virtual machines to take advantage of greater scalability. Being able to access more ...

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 ...

High Availability (HA) refers to the design and implementation of systems that are operational and accessible without significant downtime. HA systems are engineered to overcome failures automatically ...

In today’s dynamic application landscape, delivering IT infrastructure that’s highly available, performant and secure is paramount for organizations of all sizes. Load balancers help achieve this by ...

Thanks to the low cost of open-source solutions and the falling prices of hardware, network managers are finding it easier than ever to build out networks and grow the capabilities of the data center.

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 ...

Free load balancers present an excellent opportunity to maximize performance without breaking the budget if you're seeking a solid solution to improve the security and efficiency of your network.