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 ...

Most breaches don’t outsmart your stack; they walk through a permissive load balancer you tuned for speed instead of trust. For a long time, I thought of the load balancer as a performance device. Its ...

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.

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...

Why then do we need the network to play a role? First and foremost, not all applications were designed and written with security, reliability and efficiency in mind. What’s more, network delivered ...

With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and ...