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ALSO CALLED: Web Load Balancing, Workload Balancing, Server Load Balancing, SLB, Network Load Balancing, Server Workload Balancing, Load Balancer, Round Robin DNS DEFINITION: Load balancing is dividing the amount of work that a computer has to do between two or more computers so that more work gets done in the same amount of time and, in general, all users get served faster. Load balancing can be implemented with hardware, software, or a combination of both. Typically, load balancing is the main reason for computer server clustering. On the Internet, companies whose … Definition continues below.
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The Top 5 Server Monitoring Battles and How You Can Win Them sponsored by Nimsoft, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The uses, requirements, and complexity of servers have all increased dramatically. Consequently, server monitoring has more importance in today's environments. This guide looks at some of the most pressing challenges you might face in ensuring optimal server performance. It offers insights into the tools and strategies for addressing these demands. Posted: 04 Nov 2009 \| Published: 04 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Load Balancing \| Network Management \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Monitoring Software \| Network Performance \| Server Management \| Systems Operations

Configuring High Availability for Windows Server 2008 Environments sponsored by Marathon Technologies WHITE PAPER: All organizations are becoming increasingly reliant upon their computer systems. The availability of those systems can be the difference between the organization succeeding and failing. This series will examine how we can configure our Windows Server 2008 environments to provide the level of availability our organizations need. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 28 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Clustering \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Downtime \| High Availability \| Load Balancing \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| SLA \| Systems Management \| Windows Server Software

WAS Comparison Paper: Application Server Choices: Important Considerations in Selecting an Application Server sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This competitive snapshot compares and reviews some prominent open source application server offerings, particularly those from BEA, Oracle and IBM®. Posted: 12 Feb 2009 \| Published: 12 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Application Server Software \| Interoperability \| J2EE \| Load Balancing \| Network Applications Software \| Network Infrastructure \| Open Source \| SOA

Overview of Windows Search Technologies sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: This paper helps us to understand the importance of desktop search tools fit in the universe of Microsoft search tools. Posted: 10 Feb 2009 \| Published: 10 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Clustering \| Enterprise Search Software \| Group Policy \| GUI \| Indexing (Information Management) \| Indexing Software \| Load Balancing \| Metadata \| Search Engines \| Windows Server Software

Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: In order to ensuring the EDW will get the optimal performance and will scale as your data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process. Posted: 19 Jan 2009 \| Published: 19 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Warehouses \| Load Balancing \| Memory \| Parallel Processing \| Systems Management

A Guide to Diagnosing .Net Application Errors sponsored by AVIcode, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a guide for effectively diagnosing .Net application health problems, code failures and performance bottlenecks. Posted: 19 Nov 2008 \| Published: 19 Nov 2008 TOPICS: .NET \| Application Monitoring \| Application Monitoring Software \| Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Data Protection \| Load Balancing \| Operations Manager \| Security \| Service Level Management \| SLA \| Software Quality Assurance

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LOAD BALANCING DEFINITION (continued): … Web sites get a great deal of traffic usually use load balancing. For load balancing Web traffic, there are several approaches. For Web serving, one approach is to route each request in turn to a different server host address in a domain name system (DNS) table, round-robin fashion. Usually, if two servers are used to balance a work load, a third server is needed to determine which server to assign the work to. Since load balancing requires multiple servers, it is usually combined with failover and backup services. In some approaches, the servers are distributed over different geographic locations. …
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