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 treated by ...

As hardware and bandwidth costs continue to drop, the biggest expense associated with large data centers has been their power draw; it's estimated that 1.5 percent of US energy production now goes to ...

David Davis explains how to configure EtherChannel to increase your bandwidth and provide redundancy on a Cisco network. In my previous article on the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), I ...

popular method for building terabit switches is to use parallel switch elements with distributed control. Two critical issues for using this type of architecture are the load-balancing algorithm and ...

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 ...