The practice of distributing workload across multiple components or resources to optimize resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload is referred to as Load Balancing. In today’s competitive business environment, where achieving the highest levels of application performance is of critical importance to any enterprise, it is the load balancer solutions that help enterprises optimize servers, network connections and tuning applications and thereby del...

Globalization led expansion of enterprises across geographies results in increase in functions,number of workforce, customers, volume of database, IT infrastructure and  network servers besides its size.  To cater for increase in the data that needs to be stored and processed for the proper functioning of their widespread offices, enterprises make use of multiple data centers and server farms.   However, these expansions and accessibility to the corporate networks challenges global organizat...

In today’s hypercompetitive business environment, responding to business requirements as quickly as possible is the secret to business success. With applications being the lifeblood of today’s businesses, ensuring application deliveryin a timely manner should be the top priority of any business enterprise. Today enterprises have multiple responsibilities to meet namely enhancing business processes, boosting employee productivity and improving customer experience. Hence, enterprises need ...

Applications are the lifeblood of enterprise operations as these are required for human resources, customer relationships, resource planning, accounting, collaboration, communication and a wide variety of additional business-critical processes. Whether hosted in the data center or in the cloud, these applications must cost-effectively scale without sacrificing reliability or the end-user experience. This is because in today’s competitive business environment, applications need to be fast, ...

Unplanned business disruptions come in many forms and sizes resulting in tremendous losses.  With enterprises becoming increasingly reliant on technology to conduct their business, BCP has gained all the more importance. As it is usually too late to implement a BCP solution when a disruptive event occurs, there is always a loss of productivity and revenue. The ability of an organization to recover from a disaster is directly related to the degree of BCP [Business Continuity Planning] that ha...

Being able to balance workload evenly all through various servers is crucial for resolving time-sensitive scanning issues and challenges. With a gateway HTTP scanning solution, all the internal endpoints that request for external Web content are more probable to have a positive experience in case both their request and the final content are allowed to transparently pass through the network’s web scanning or caching infrastructure.

Importance of Load Balancing in Web Security

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Wikipedia defines application delivery controller as “a network device in the datacenter that helps perform common tasks done by web sites in an effort to remove load from the web servers themselves.” It is only recently that enterprises have started using application delivery controllers on a large scale. Gartner realized the shift in demand among enterprises when as part of its research titled ‘Application Delivery Controller End-User Spending, Worldwide, 2005-2010’ it discovered t...

An Application Delivery Controller is defined as “a data center network device that helps manage client connections to complex Web and enterprise applications.” According to Gartner, Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) are “designed for data centre applications and improve the performance of Web-based and related applications by providing a suite of services at the network and application layers.” Usually enterprises deploy ADCs behind a firewall and in front of one or more appli...

Every business enterprises today is technology enabled and the multinational organizations survive through array of functions with the help of widely networked environment. However, with the ever-changing demands from the customers and the growth oriented business, enterprises need to have a scalable and secure networked system with the ability to provide the end-users with bandwidth for application visibility.

The need for WAN bandwidth optimization also involves process consolidation and man...

Regardless of the fact, whether an organization has an e-commerce web portal or offers services that are based on the information offered through optimal application performance, web applications is essential for partners, employees and consumers. However, as soon as the user traffic spikes and the servers gets bogged down by compute-intensive SSL transactions, memory overloads, huge data file requests and hackers, third party intruders trying to flood servers, the application and site funct...

Today's global business environment though technologically sound, is also a very complex one. The growth of the mobile internet and use of smart phones to tablets, has accelerated demand for continuous connectivity to business applications. This has created the need for catering to the widely networked environment.  Organizations thus need technology which can not only help in making them globally accessible but also ensure a faster response time with relation to application delivery and bus...

Today’s highly techno savvy business professionals communicates through the world wide web. Every business house today is dependent on the internet to connect to its audience and other network offices located globally. The internet therefore has become a crucial component of every business activity and is required to be easily accessible are consistent to make sure proper business continuity. Keeping these concerns in mind load balancing is the method that offers a cost-efficient, effectiv...

Innovations in technology and computer based applications are no more extraordinary events in today’s fast developing world. Given the pace of new technological discoveries, it has become the order of the day. The main reason for this is the modern day evolving work culture that gives rise to new age work requirements. With ongoing changes companies have realized the importance to maintain a work life balance. Continuous research and development on how to achieve this end have made it poss...