Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems. Google is known to fiercely guard its data center secrets ...

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Newest Release Connects and Protects Applications with Improved Speed, Scale and Security across VMware and non-VMware Environments PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today ...

With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and ...

Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

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Experts from analyst firm Quocirca examine the changing nature of enterprise IT strategy and offer advice to IT leaders. Load Balancing (LB), is now popping up on the corporate security agenda! LB is ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced continued momentum in providing customers a modern software alternative to legacy hardware load balancers, and new platform ...