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 treated by ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Load balancers used to be fairly simple, distributing user requests from the Internet to a group of servers instead of just one. Between the drive to differentiate themselves and the increasing ...

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Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems. Google is known to fiercely guard its data center secrets ...