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 ...

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 ...

Connecting cloud systems to one another to improve load balancing and data backup can often take days to complete, depending on bandwidth and setup requirements. But a new proof-of-concept funded by ...

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 ...

I was just reading about the new SMB 3.0 features that will be released with Server 2012 and Windows 8. One of the features that really has me intrigued is the new SMB Multichannel. SMB Multichannel ...

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 ...

Today, we’ll finish up our discussion of high-availability reinforcement options in branch offices. For protecting the last-mile access link (generally the most vulnerable segment of the network), ...