Rackspace’s cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability. Rackspace’s cloud ...

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One of the major selling points of SOA and cloud computing is that service consumers don't have to worry about the platform and hardware that the service is hosted on, be it somewhere else within the ...

The even distribution of processing across available resources such as servers in a network or disks in a storage area network (SAN). Load balancing might split incoming transactions evenly to all ...

An in-depth look at the latest trends and technologies in enterprise networking. I recently completed a report for a long-time client, Kemp Technologies, in the area ...

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...