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 ...

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 ...

Typical load balancers use Internet Control Message Protocol pings to check server health. Web Server Director Pro goes further by also performing IP and application-level checks.

Broadcom adds agentic security, post-quantum encryption, and other features to VMware Cloud Foundation, vDefend and VMware ...

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 ...

Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems.

F5 Networks Inc.'s Big-IP HA controller load balancer makes Web farms of heterogeneous commodity servers a viable alternative to expensive big-iron servers and hard-to-manage clusters.

Cisco's ADN rivals, including F5 and A10 Networks, are pouncing on the company's decision to de-emphasize Layer 4-7 networking.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer is a new fully-managed network gateway and load balancer. The service is tailored to deploy, scale and manage third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion ...