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.

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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 ...

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Nothing is more important for an enterprise application than scalability and availability. Learn how to use clustering to meet both existing and future demands. Enterprise application (EA) architects ...

Thanks to the low cost of open-source solutions and the falling prices of hardware, network managers are finding it easier than ever to build out networks and grow the capabilities of the data center.

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