Amazon recently announced that the Application Load Balancer supports AWS PrivateLink and static IP addresses by direct integration with the Network Load Balancer.

The users of Network Load Balancer also get API-compatibility with the Application Load Balancer, source IP address preservation, long-running connections, health checks, and logging.

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 ...

Gregor Roth concludes his two-part introduction to server load balancing architectures with a look at a variety of application-level solutions.

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 ...

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 ...

Avi SaaS also takes care of provisioning load balancers, can monitor application performance in real-time, and in many cases can resolve any issues by itself, the company said.

VMware bought Avi in June with the plan to punch up its data-center network-virtualization capabilities by adding Avi’s load balancing, analytics and application-delivery technology to NSX. Avi ...

The value of network load balancing NLB’s value resides in clustering. With it, you can create a cluster of machines aimed at providing high availability and load balancing.