In the previous section, we covered the HTTP protocol in detail. You now understand the URLs, methods, and cookies. In Layer 7 load balancing, the SLB device proxies the client's TCP connection and ...

Thwarting denial-of-service attacks, load balancing multiple ISP links and speeding Web services traffic – these are among the new features in Foundry Networks’ ServerIron switches Thwarting denial-of ...

I'm working on a project for a client and we are developing a proposed network structure for their needs.<BR><BR>At the moment there is no budget. $500,000 would not be an unreasonable order, once ...

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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 ...

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.

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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 ...

Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta.… The networking giant quit load balancers in 2012 when it decided to stop ...

Load balancers by definition are all about balancing the traffic to ensure availability and performance. IBM is now looking to upend traditional approaches. The NS1 Connect GSLB service is being ...