Load balancing technology, which took off in 1990s with the rise of the Internet, continues to find behind-the-scenes work in the enterprise – including a supporting role in the current mobile boom.

The IBM NS1 Connect global server load-balancing service ties together the company’s DNS technology with real-time user data to speed connectivity and improve failover in distributed enterprises. IBM ...

GitHub will release as open source the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), its internally developed load balancer. GLB was originally built to accommodate GitHub’s need to serve billions of HTTP, Git, and SSH ...

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 ...

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 ...

MySQL will introduce dynamic load balancing to its database platform and enterprise subscription in 2008. That news surfaced during a briefing Thursday with MySQL executives about the open source ...

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 ...

LoadMaster 6.0 introduces pre-configured application templates that are designed to reduce the time and effort required to optimally deploy business-critical applications. With LoadMaster 6.0 ...