Load-Balancing White Papers

29 white papers are tagged with: load-balancing


The Role of the Adaptive Network in Service-Oriented Architectures

For networkers to successfully deliver applications, it is not just a matter of adding more capacity or connectivity.... A higher degree of automation, integration, and architectural design is required, with network-based intelligence as the foundation.
Source: F5

Message-Based Load Balancing

Load balancing has been integral to successfully providing high availability and nearly transparent scalability to web-based applications for almost two decades. Used at first to simply scale web-oriented protocols such as HTTP, once the integration of webbased applications with other key data ...
Source: F5

Load Balancing 101: The Evolution to Application Delivery Controllers

One of the unfortunate effects of the continued evolution of the load balancer into today's application delivery controller (ADC) is that it is often too easy to forget the basic problem for which load balancers were originally created-producing highly available, scalable, and predictable ...
Source: F5

Load Balancing 101: Nuts and Bolts

This white paper has described the very beginning basics of load balancing technology. It is important to understand that this technology, while still in use, is now only considered a feature of ADCs. ADCs have evolved from the first load balancers and have completed the service virtualization ...
Source: F5

Inband Passive Monitors--Maintain Application Performance and Health

Application health monitors are now a tried and true technology of the Application Delivery Controller, yet traditional monitors require interaction with the application. Inband passive monitors change that requirement and monitor applications transparently. Inband passive monitors finally fuse ...
Source: F5

An Enterprise Database Performance Comparison of the Dell PowerEdge 6850 and the Sun Fire V490 UltraSPARC Server

To test the performance of latest generation dual‐core quad‐socket servers from Dell and Sun, a performance test using the open source and freely available Dell DVD store database was conducted. Similarly configured Dell PowerEdge 6850 and Sun Fire V490 servers were used for the performance ...

Using Adobe LiveCycle Production Print in a Cluster Configuration

This document provides an overview of how to set up Adobe LiveCycle Production Print ES software in a cluster environment. It offers guidelines for achieving a failover solution that load balances incoming jobs.

Advanced Load Balancing: 8 Must-Have Features for Today's Network Demands

Early-generation server load balancing technology has proven to be an invaluable asset, especially for organizations hosting widely utilized Web applications. By operating as a virtual entry point to such applications, load balancing provides an opportunity to execute a variety of algorithms for ...

Is your Load Balancer Cloud Ready?

Cloud computing is one of the emerging developments in IT service delivery. A recent survey by Gartner revealed that cloud computing rates as the second highest technology priority in 2010, behind only virtualization.1 This is because cloud computing has the potential to reduce cost of ownership, ...

Cisco Resilient Ethernet Protocol

This paper describes about the adoption of Carrier Ethernet is causing the creation of large Layer 2 domains that require fast and predictable convergence. In particular, Service providers require fast convergence to support video and voice services for their triple-play deployments. Moreover, this ...
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