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 ...

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 ...

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.

The data traffic load at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, is enormous. The network supports approximately 30,000 users and 10,000 nodes spread across 24 buildings on five campuses.

Logan Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist. Load balancing is a basic function for managing a website, distributing traffic among multiple web servers and adding needed fault tolerance. But ...

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 ...

In the fast-paced world of the internet, where every second counts and interruptions are a no-go, imagine a behind-the-scenes wizard making sure everything runs smoothly. That wizard is the Open ...

Our minor departmental ASP.NET app works great in DEV on a web server without SSL. It relies on getting the User's Windows identity from HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name<BR><BR>When we move the ...

So, this is my first blog post on here. Hope it goes well. One of the most commonly asked questions of late is how to properly use a load-balancer with Cisco’s Identity Services Engine. Here are some ...