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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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Consolidating your Citrix XenDesktop monitoring efforts using Microsoft System Center
sponsored by Citrix & ComTrade
WEBCAST:
Join us to learn how ComTrade's Management Pack for Citrix XenDesktop can help you to measure, monitor and manage XenDesktop and give you a complete end to end view of your Citrix environment from within Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager.
Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Premiered: 09 Feb 2012
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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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High Availability and Load Balance
sponsored by Progress Software
WEBCAST:
This webcast discusses the high availability and load balancing of data clusters. Learn how to maintain continuous availability in order to save on cost and time, eliminate testing, and achieve true zero-down time maintenance.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 28 Nov 2011
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Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager Proves Critical as AlertBoot Moves to the Cloud
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
CASE STUDY:
When AlertBoot switched to the cloud it needed a load balancing solution that would support its migration and prevent as much downtime as possible. The company chose Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager to use while transitioning its infrastructure to an entirely virtualized environment.
Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011
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STA Travel’s Website Performance Flys with Riverbed
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
CASE STUDY:
The company turned to the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager for support. This cost-effective solution deployed quickly, improved the website’s performance and uptime, and provided a superior online experience for its customers.
Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 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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Coffee Break: Five Reasons to Consolidate Your Microsoft Application Storage On Dell Equallogic PS Series
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE:
Storage consolidation enables organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management. But how does an organization ensure that consolidation does not cause performance issues? To avoid performance utilization problems administrators should provision storage so that loads are balanced across resources evenly.
Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009
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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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