The deployment of BYOD requires being an iterative procedure-support for BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for certain commodity enterprise technology such as email and collaboration systems that can set up the very base for shifting on to a mission-specific, diverse applications and an expanded scope of organization offerings. The access can be facilitates with the help of applications that are native to the device, installable or downloadable applications or a web browser. The public and privat...

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 business environment, where consumerization of IT has resulted in the popularity of the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), employees, partners, customers, contractors and guests want remote access to business applications anywhere at any time. Though ensuring remote access helps enterprises to increase productivity, it is highly necessary that enterprises make sure that security and compliance are equally maintained. With security breaches being a serious issue, enterprises...

Consumerization of IT is transforming the traditional IT landscape of organizations and the way employees use technology. As if mobile devices weren't enough of a constant in our everyday lives, several studies predict that they might be even more prominent in the coming years. Today, with advances in consumer technology, mobile applications, affordability of smart and powerful mobile devices, organizations are more challenged than ever to incorporate them into the enterprise IT architecture...

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, ...

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...

Load balancing can be best defined as a computer method to distribute work load all through the computer clusters, servers, central processing units, disk drives, network links or any other resources. Load balancing comes with its own set of advantages, such as :

·         Reduces the load on individual systems and minimizes response time

·         Increase network utilization

·         Improves reliability  

·         Facilitates scaling

·         Enhance user satisfaction  

In...

Technological advancements have changed remarkably the way businesses operate today, but the increased reliance on technology has its own share of disadvantages. Though IT solutions and services help enterprises to carry out their business operations swiftly, smoothly and perfectly, it has not been able to guarantee continuous business operations.

Disasters are part and parcel of any industry, which can never be predicted nor prevented. The only thing that can be done is to reduce its impact ...

The business world today makes use of every available technology to withstand the aggressive competition prevalent in the environment.  With the growth in the use of various applications, across corporate environment, the IT departments have explored the possibilities of using dedicated servers. These are computer systems which are part of the corporate network and are kept apart for specific jobs so as to fasten the access and processing time. However, with the increasing demands on the par...

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...

IT infrastructure plays an important part in the success of any organization. With network servers being used to host ERP, the e-business infrastructure is estimated to provide high performance, scalable solutions to support all applications at all times. In many instances the availability of these applications are vulnerable to network overloads as well as to server and application failures. Being a widely adopted solution, server load balancing, deals with all performance and availability i...

IT infrastructure plays an important part in the success of any organization. With network servers being used to host ERP, the e-business infrastructure is estimated to provide high performance, scalable solutions to support all applications at all times. In many instances the availability of these applications are vulnerable to network overloads as well as to server and application failures. Being a widely adopted solution, server load balancing, deals with all performance and availability ...

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...