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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In windows server 2003 there is a feature built into the TCP/IP networking and IIS that allows for network load balaning to happen between two servers, without dedicated load balancing hardware e.g, ...

A vendor with traffic management gear designed for cost-conscious businesses is setting its sights a bit higher upstream with its latest release. Kemp Technologies has traditionally targeted small ...

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 ...

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 ...