Since VMware acquired Avi Networks, the platform has expanded significantly beyond its original load balancing roots. The ...

Richard Davies is CEO for cloud server provider Elastichosts. Prior to ElasticHosts, Richard worked for the leading global management consultancy McKinsey & Company. Richard was also one of the ...

Logan Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist. Load balancing is a basic function for managing a website, distributing traffic among multiple web servers and adding needed fault tolerance. But ...

Plenty of folks have used their Raspberry Pi as a web server. [Steve] however is the first 8 node load balanced pi cluster server we’ve run into. While we have seen pi clusters before, they’ve never ...

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Providing fault tolerance as well as the ability to scale beyond the capacity of a single server, load balancers are practically a necessity for any commercial site. Because loads on a given Web site ...

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 ...

Logan G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. Load balancing is a basic function for managing a website, distributing traffic among ...