The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

One issue that users often encounter with VDI is that some hosts have a heavier load than others. If an organization reboots a Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, for instance, that host may be nearly idle, ...

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 ...

At its simplest, a load balancer is a mechanism that distributes traffic across multiple destination hosts to ensure no one single host catches the full workload. A DNS load balancer, for example, ...

Redistributing patients from greater- to lesser-impacted hospitals—so-called “level-loading” demand for inpatient capacity—may help systems reduce strain where it is most jeopardizing. Traditional ...