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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was just reading about the new SMB 3.0 features that will be released with Server 2012 and Windows 8. One of the features that really has me intrigued is the new SMB Multichannel. SMB Multichannel ...

Today, we’ll finish up our discussion of high-availability reinforcement options in branch offices. For protecting the last-mile access link (generally the most vulnerable segment of the network), ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

ND SatCom recently upgraded its core technology platform SkyWAN with Load Balancing, a new software feature for the international VSAT market for IP data traffic. Load Balancing improves the dynamic ...

Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

David Davis explains how to configure EtherChannel to increase your bandwidth and provide redundancy on a Cisco network. In my previous article on the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), I ...