An in-depth look at the latest trends and technologies in enterprise networking. I remember long ago, in an unlikely setting for a bleeding-edge test-labs – an old winery surrounded by vines where the ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

Can you do anything else with it or do I have tie it to Exchange only? For example, can I add other servers to be load balanced, etc.? Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks. Unless they are ...

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.

Providing fault tolerance as well as the ability to scale beyond the capacity of a single server, load balancers are practically a necessity for any commercial site. Because loads on a given Web site ...

Does your work truck feel a little light in the front or the equipment trailer it’s towing tend to wag a bit when there’s a crosswind? Chances are the reason for both is the trailered load isn’t ...

There is no way to do this. You can't ensure what you want due to fragmentation concerns anyway: a fragmented file by necessity could span more than one disk.