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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
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Load Balancing White Papers
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High Availability and Load Balancing
sponsored by Progress Software
WHITE PAPER:
This paper, the third in a series on enterprise data integration, examines how "connection-weighted load balancing" provides fast, reliable, highly available cluster processing.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011
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Riverbed Helps Triple Gilt Groupe’s Web Traffic Within a Year
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
With over 5,000 requests per second during peak periods, online retailer Gilt Groupe could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10 minutes of downtime. After choosing the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager as its load balancing solution, visits to the site have increased thanks to improved customer satisfaction.
Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011
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14 Common Virtualization Mistakes – And How To Avoid Them
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER:
Once IT pros have surmounted the toughest task - getting a “yes” from all the people involved to start slowly migrating physical server environments to virtual environments - they can still fall prey to migration mistakes. This white paper reveals the 14 most common issues made during virtual migration and provides tips on how you can avoid them.
Posted: 13 May 2011 | Published: 13 May 2011
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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. … Load Balancing definition sponsored by SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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