Admins seeking a secret weapon in Windows environments should look no further than network load balancing, an often underutilized capability built right into Windows Server, and one that’s easy to ...

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 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 VPNs ...

With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and ...

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KEMP Technologies‘ is now giving away its application load balancer, LoadMaster, for unlimited free use, an effort to get the commercial-grade product into the hands of more IT developers and open ...

Hey all, I have a client site that is running Ex2010 SP1 on 2 multi-role VMs in a DAG, for about 400 mailboxes across two DBs. The VMs are also HA via Hyper-V cluster. Currently, VM1 is hosting 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 ...