Load balancing a network is a task that many administrators often overlook—to the detriment of their networks—even in the smallest of environments. Generally, poor network performance is ...

The network load-balancing (NLB) vendor landscape has consolidated down to five major players and some niche alternative vendors.META Trend: Wide-area network services will transition toward IP ...

Gateway Load Balancer is a fully-managed service enabling enterprises to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third-party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure. Microsoft recently ...

A third paper from Alibaba describes [PDF] “Nezha”, a distributed vSwitch load sharing system that works on SmartNICs – the CPU-equipped network cards that hyperscalers use to run networking and ...

Gateway Load Balancer makes life easier by providing a single gateway for distributing traffic evenly through the network and scaling virtual appliances up and down, based on demand, Yun said.

Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer is a new fully-managed network gateway and load balancer. The service is tailored to deploy, scale and manage third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion ...

Coyote Point Systems aims to help administrators increase ROI by delivering load balancing appliances that work with virtualization technologies.

A networking startup wants to make deploying Internet applications easier by combining load balancing and SSL in a single switch.

The additions enable congestion control, load-balancing and management capabilities for systems controlled by the vendor’s core Junos and Juniper Apstra data center intent-based networking software.