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ALSO CALLED: Web Load Balancing, Workload Balancing, Server Load Balancing, SLB, Network Load Balancing, Server Workload Balancing, Load Balancer, and 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, … Definition continues below.

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Load Balancing 101: The Evolution to Application Delivery Controllers sponsored by F5 Networks WHITE PAPER: Posted: 28 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Jul 2007 SUMMARY: ADCs are the natural evolution to the critical network real estate that load balancers of the past held, and while they owe a great deal to those bygone devices, they are a distinctly new breed providing availability, performance and securi... TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Load Balancing \| Network Security

SOA and Virtualization: How Do They Fit Together? sponsored by BEA Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 20 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 SUMMARY: This white paper discusses methods for effectively implementing SOA and virtualization technologies to ensure that they complement each other. TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Business IT Alignment \| Deployment \| Load Balancing \| Provisioning \| SOA \| System Testing \| Virtualization \| VMware

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition: 10,000 User Benchmark on SUN T2000 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Posted: 18 Feb 2008 \| Published: 01 Feb 2008 SUMMARY: Read this white paper to learn how business intelligence (BI) can help you support very high user loads, scale linearly, and realize significant scalability improvements. TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Caching \| Clustering \| Load Balancing \| Load Testing \| Oracle (Product) \| Real-time Analytical Software \| Scalability Testing \| User Experience

Seven Steps towards Business Continuity with a Hosted Fax Service sponsored by Biscom Inc. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 28 Jan 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 SUMMARY: This document describes the seven steps by which a hosted fax service can be a key component of any organization's business continuity solution. TOPICS: Active Directory \| Business Continuity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| Electronics Equipment \| Fax Machines \| Fax Server Hardware \| Fax Servers \| Fax Software \| LDAP \| Load Balancing \| Public Switched Telephone Network \| Routing

The Next Step in Controlling Spiraling Costs sponsored by EqualLogic, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 18 Jan 2008 \| Published: 18 Jan 2008 SUMMARY: Although hardware storage prices have come down, storage administration and software expenses still run about seven times the cost of storage hardware. TOPICS: iSCSI \| Load Balancing \| RAID \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization

A Guide to Diagnosing .NET Application Health Problems sponsored by AVIcode, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 17 Jan 2008 \| Published: 01 Sep 2007 SUMMARY: This white paper offers a guide for effectively diagnosing .Net application health problems, code failures and performance bottlenecks. TOPICS: .NET \| Data Protection \| Load Balancing \| Operations Manager \| Security \| SLA \| Web Services

SQL Server Infrastructure Optimization eBook Chapter 2 -- "Optimizing your SQL Server Infrastructure: Good Ideas, Bad Ideas" sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Posted: 10 Dec 2007 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 SUMMARY: Download chapter two, "Optimizing your SQL Server Infrastructure: Good Ideas, Bad Ideas," to learn why this happens from a technical viewpoint and explore some of the ways ... TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Database Administration \| Database Architectures \| Infrastructure Management \| Load Balancing \| SQL \| SQL Server

Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® Processor 9100 Series sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Posted: 03 Dec 2007 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 SUMMARY: The Dual-Core Intel Itanium processor 91001 series is delivering new levels of flexibility, reliability, performance and scalability for mission-critical and data-intensive applications. Read this report to learn more. TOPICS: Disaster Recovery \| IT Infrastructure \| Load Balancing \| Microprocessors \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Testing

Comparing Multi-Core Processors for Server Virtualization sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Posted: 21 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 Aug 2007 SUMMARY: Achieve the greatest scalability, the highest consolidation ratios, and the best performance per watt with Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors. Learn why you need to integrate Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors into your computing environment ... TOPICS: Disaster Recovery \| IT Infrastructure \| Load Balancing \| Microprocessors \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Testing

Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Posted: 21 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 Nov 2007 SUMMARY: Intel offers the industry's first quad-core processors in volume production for multiprocessor server platforms, enabling scalable performance and proven reliability for data demanding applications and server consolidation in virtualized en... TOPICS: Disaster Recovery \| IT Infrastructure \| Load Balancing \| Microprocessors \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Testing

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LOAD BALANCING DEFINITION (continued): … load balancing is the main reason for computer server clustering.

On the Internet, companies whose 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 …
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