GitHub will release as open source the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), its internally developed load balancer. GLB was originally built to accommodate GitHub’s need to serve billions of HTTP, Git, and SSH ...

Newest Release Connects and Protects Applications with Improved Speed, Scale and Security across VMware and non-VMware Environments PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today ...

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New whitepaper outlines practical framework for strengthening application performance, availability and security across emerging Asia-Pacific markets SINGAPORE and KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 10, ...

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 ...

With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and ...

A software upgrade for Foundry Networks ‘ ServerIronXL can let users simplify WAN and Internet connection links, configure failover connections and allocate bandwidth for specific applications running ...

Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...