As hardware and bandwidth costs continue to drop, the biggest expense associated with large data centers has been their power draw; it's estimated that 1.5 percent of US energy production now goes to ...

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Since VMware acquired Avi Networks, the platform has expanded significantly beyond its original load balancing roots. The ...

popular method for building terabit switches is to use parallel switch elements with distributed control. Two critical issues for using this type of architecture are the load-balancing algorithm and ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With the spread of global e-commerce and strained IT budgets, organizations are often challenged to find cost-effective solutions that provide always-on Internet connectivity ...

Greetings - <BR>We're about to build out a second cluster of web servers (for geographic redundancy using round-robin DNS in a second colo) and I'm looking into a load balancer setup for the second ...

Kym is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology and is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. To address common problems with their wide area networks, ...