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 application ...

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 ...

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Commercial organizations increasingly move as many applications to the public cloud as possible, but state and local governments resist these efforts due to security or budgetary concerns. Many ...

DigitalOcean has added another feature to its cloud-hosting offerings: load balancers. Supporting HTTP, HTTPS, and bare TCP streams at launch, the load balancer option makes it even easier for ...

Customer engagement service Freshworks, which was valued at about $1.5 billion in its last funding round, today launched Omniroute, the latest product in its portfolio of tools for customer service ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Volterra , an innovator in distributed cloud services, today announced new capabilities for its VoltMesh service to provide globally distributed networking and ...

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 ...

Can't seem to figure this out on my own, and I know there are a few people here working with FortiGates, so I guess it's time to ask the hive mind. Assume 3 interfaces: WAN (internet), LAN ...