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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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New Era of IT Automation sponsored by CA WEBCAST: Posted: 06 Mar 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: The delivery of new r11 products and the acquisition of workload automation technology from Cybermation have changed the landscape of traditional job scheduling and provided advanced capabilities to CA customers. TOPICS: Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Job Control Language \| Job Scheduling Software \| Load Balancing \| Systems Management \| Workflow Software

Learn how to improve overall IT operations, reduce costs and simplify and ensure compliance efforts sponsored by CA WEBCAST: Posted: 27 Feb 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: View this webcast to learn how to leverage workload automation to improve overall IT operations, reduce costs and simplify and ensure compliance efforts. TOPICS: Compliance Best Practices \| Corporate Governance \| IT Governance \| Job Scheduling Software \| Load Balancing \| Regulatory Compliance \| Systems Management

How to Benchmark Application Performance sponsored by Citrix PODCAST: Posted: 10 Oct 2007 \| Premiered: 10 Oct 2007, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT) SUMMARY: Listen to this podcast that details how to successfully benchmark application performance. TOPICS: Applications Management \| Distributed Computing \| Fault Management \| High Availability \| Load Balancing \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| WAN \| Web Switches

Fast guide to server consolidation and virtualization sponsored by Opsware, Inc. WEBCAST: Posted: 12 May 2007 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: In this 15-minute fast guide, systems integrator Bernard Golden reveals the pros and cons of using virtualization as a server consolidation strategy. TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Clustering \| Load Balancing \| Network Infrastructure \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software

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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