Logan Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist. A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to increase the overall capability of a system to handle heavy ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I would like to ask questions regarding this issue:<BR><BR>We are currently using two BigIP f5 load balancer to distribute load to five traffic servers, one is active and the other serves ...

As computer hardware becomes increasingly more powerful, organizations are reaping huge cost and energy savings from replacing physical machines with virtual ones. But whether you're replacing several ...

Switch maker F5 Networks last week upgraded its Internet traffic, content and network management products that could give users better ways to speed and manage their e-commerce infrastructure. The ...

A blade system without a load balancer would be like Chicago’s O’Hare without air traffic control. One of the core applications for server blades is to serve as the front end to Web hosting, firewalls ...

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 ...