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- Load Balancing
- The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load...
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- Batch & Print Pro 3.05 (Windows)
- Batch & Print Pro is for batching documents as retainable lists, which can be automatically printed in, document sequence of your choice. All associated shell printable documents are supported, PDF, MS Word, HTML, text files, image formats, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations. Batch & Print Pro software monitors the spool queue...
- Tags: Traction Software Inc., Load Balancing, Microsoft Windows, Batch File, Printers, Document Management, E-mail, Network Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-10-06
- ServePath GoGrid - an F5 customer profile
- I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Telemachus Luu, Director of Product Engineering at GoGrid, the Cloud Computing Division of ServePath. Please introduce your company and your role GoGrid is the leading Cloud Computing, hosted, Internet service that delivers true â€Control in the Cloudâ€. GoGrid enables system...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Environment, API, ServePath GoGrid, F5, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Vyatta Community Edition 5.0.2 (Windows)
- Vyatta's open, software-based approach to networking allows us to deliver a complete network OS that takes advantage of high-performance multi-core processor advancements and is portable to modern virtualization and cloud infrastructures. Vyatta's free oprn-source community edition software offers complete enterprise-class router, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, content filtering, and WAN load...
- Tags: Multi-core Processor, Load Balancing, High-performance, Microsoft Windows, Vyatta, Network Technology, Intrusion Prevention, Leadership, Processors, Networking, Security, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-08-18
- VMware vSphere 4 QuickStart Series Part 3: Cluster Setup, Availability and Load Balancing
- The presenter of this webcast teaches administrators how to install, configure and manage VMware vSphere 4. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to set up a virtual machine cluster, also known as a resource pool and configure VMware HA to provide application high availability.
- Tags: Load Balancing, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-06-29
- CacheGuard Appliance 5.4.2 (Windows)
- CacheGuard is an OS/Appliance dedicated to Web traffic Security and QoS. It transforms a x86-based machine into a powerful Web Gateway Appliance. It allows you to protect Web surfers and Web servers by acting as a network filter. Also all Web traffics crossing the CacheGuard Appliance are optimized to save...
- Tags: Web, QoS, HTTP, Load Balancing, Microsoft Windows, Content Filtering, OneTec, CacheGuard, Web Servers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-05-19
- Automatic Load Balancing Relieves Administrative Burden
- Storage consolidation is an accepted best practice because it enables organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management. An obvious benefit of consolidation is storage capacity utilization. A less commonly discussed topic is how to ensure that consolidation does not cause performance issues: underutilization or overutilization of hardware...
- Tags: Performance, Load Balancing, Dell EqualLogic, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-05-08
- Evolution of Application Acceleration: Load Balancing to Application Delivery
- Web applications are redefining the way many businesses operate. Behind the scenes, the architecture that supports these applications has evolved as well to meet the ever-growing demands for performance, throughput and availability. Today's web environment is much more complex, with rich media applications, more transactions and interactivity, and enormous traffic...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Rich Media, Crescendo, Data Centers, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Networking
- White papers 2009-04-28
- Pronto.com Accelerates Online Shopping Applications with Crescendo Networks
- Pronto.com is the Web's fastest growing comparison shopping site, servicing more than 15 million users each month. With business growing rapidly, Pronto.com decided it was essential to upgrade load balancing capabilities, as peak traffic and other stresses were preventing the site from performing optimally. After testing both load balancers and...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Site, Crescendo, Pronto.com, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2009-04-27
- Are appliances the answer?
- Are appliances the answer? That depends entirely on the question of course. I've spoken with a number of suppliers who have "encapsulated" a function and are selling it as an appliance server. Cisco, for one, has made a living selling pieces of the networking stack as appliances. This time, I...
- Tags: Function, Load Balancing, Appliance Server, Network Technology, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- SmallCapInvestor.com Sees Excellent ROI in ZXTM VA Within Their VMware ESX Server
- Prior to their preparations for the launch, BFP had single servers performing multiple functions, with no load balancing which resulted in occasional loss of service in production. BFP decided to implement VMware Virtual Infrastructure to consolidate hardware resources, enabling them to choose to either allocate servers for other tasks or...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Zeus Technology, ROI, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Server Room, VMWare ESX, SmallCapInvestor.com, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- Correlation-Based Load Balancing for Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
- In large-scale enterprise networks, multiple network intrusion detection and prevention systems are used to provide high quality protections. In this context, keeping load evenly distributed among the systems is crucial. This is because even load distributions provide protection to the networks and improve the networks' quality of service. A challenging...
- Tags: Network, Load Balancing, Association For Computing Machinery, Network Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Detection, Network Administration, Networking, Security
- White papers 2008-09-25
- Gilt Groupe Ushers in Gilded Age of Couture Shopping With ZXTM Delivering 1,000% Increase in Application Performance
- Gilt Groupe schedules their designer-specific sales to start at exactly noon New York, creating extreme spikes of traffic. Over 95% of Gilt Groupe's pages require member authentication. These pages contain content that is dynamic and personalized to the member. This presents a difficult challenge in terms of content caching especially...
- Tags: Performance, Load Balancing, Zeus Technology, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- REDPLAID Delivers Reliable Infrastructure for Hosting Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses' Web Applications
- REDPLAID Managed Hosting is a leading provider of secure and reliable managed hosting solutions targeted at Small-to-Medium sized Businesses SMBs worldwide. In order to provide the high levels of security, reliability and scalability REDPLAID required for its customers, they began a search for an effective load balancing solution. It required...
- Tags: Managed Hosting, Load Balancing, Web Application, Small And Medium Business, KEMP Technologies, REDPLAID, REDPLAID Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Web Hosting, Internet
- Case studies 2008-06-06
- Improving Load Balancing With Multipath Routing
- Internet service providers have to provision network resources to optimize bandwidth utilization. Dynamic routing protocols take traffic variations into account to control the load distribution. Multipath routing protocols attempt to take advantage of the path diversity to bring network robustness and reliability. Indeed, with a specific traffic engineering policy, they...
- Tags: Network, Load Balancing, Routing Protocol, University Louis Pasteur, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-05-18
- Load Balancing for Multimedia Streaming in Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Systems
- Multimedia streaming of mostly user generated content is an ongoing trend, not only since the upcoming of Last.fm and YouTube. A distributed decentralized multimedia streaming architecture can spread the traffic costs to the user nodes, but requires providing for load balancing and consider the heterogeneity of the participating nodes. This...
- Tags: Multimedia, Load Balancing, P2P, Node, Association For Computing Machinery, Allocation, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-05-14
- Benchmark Framework for a Load Balancing Single System Image
- Recent developments in the load balancing Single System Image SSI clusters enabled workstations to provide a cost effective and high performance environment which has become increasingly attractive to many users. However, in practice, clusters of workstation failed to exploit their performance potential advantages. This paper presents and propose a framework...
- Tags: Performance, Load Balancing, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Network Technology, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Naviance Uses ZXTM to Scale Its Business to Provide College Planning and Advising to Millions of Students Worldwide
- Naviance needed to upgrade their technology infrastructure in order to scale the application to accommodate more customers and to provide 24/7 uptime. They had two key infrastructure pieces to address - local site redundancy, and capacity planning. Solving those two challenges was critical for Naviance to continue on its growth...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Zeus Technology, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- A Repartitioning Hypergraph Model for Dynamic Load Balancing
- In parallel adaptive applications, the computational structure of the applications changes over time, leading to load imbalances even though the initial load distributions were balanced. To restore balance and to keep communication volume low in further iterations of the applications, dynamic load balancing repartitioning of the changed computational structure is...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Ohio State University, Repartitioning, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-04-07
- Vector Routing
- This paper provides an understanding of XRoads Networks' patent-pending Vector Routing technology that is built into its XRoads Edge product line. Vector Routing is designed to provide two fundamental services, load balancing network traffic across many paths and ensuring redundancy in the case that one or several of those paths...
- Tags: Network, Load Balancing, XRoads Networks, Vector Routing, Internet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Load-Balancing in Multi-Homed OLSR Networks Using Airtime Metric and Radio-Aware Path Selection: Implementation and Testing
- Wireless Mesh Networks used for broadband access may be equipped with multiple Internet gateways. Using airtime metric as the main criterion for path selection is an effective method for achieving load-balancing in such a multi-homed mesh network. This paper describes how the radio-aware path selection using airtime as a metric...
- Tags: Aware, Network, Load Balancing, Radio, University Of Agder, Path Selection, Mesh Networking, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-02-29
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