Given the way applications need to dynamically scale, load balancers have become a standard component of most IT environments. But when a developer initially builds their application, they often don’t ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PASS Summit 2016 -- ScaleArc, the leading provider of database load balancing software, announced today that the latest release of its ScaleArc for SQL Server software ...

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 ...

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 ...

GitHub will release as open source the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), its internally developed load balancer. GLB was originally built to accommodate GitHub’s need to serve billions of HTTP, Git, and SSH ...

Rackspace’s cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability. Rackspace’s cloud ...

As the number of application workloads IT organizations are being required to manage steadily increases, inside and out of the cloud, an ability to master load balancing has become a lot more ...

Google is giving up yet another of its internal projects to the open-source world. Its latest contribution is called Seesaw, and it’s described as a load-balancing platform based on Linux built using ...

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Tongji University in Shanghai has deployed Radware AppDirector 3020, a load balancing utility, as part of the overhaul of its campus network. With 78,660 students and staff, the campus network covers ...

UPDATE: Google has now posted an official incident report to describe why the outage occurred. Here is the key takeaway: Between 8:45 AM PT and 9:13 AM PT, a routine update to Google’s load balancing ...