Why Do You Need Effective Load Balancing Solutions

By Author: Martin Lobo
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Let us start by understanding what is load balancing and how is it applicable to web security. Simply put, load balancing is the manner of evenly disseminating work amongst the various computers. The process leads to a set of benefits that are:-

* Minimizing the load on individual systems and reducing the response time

* Maximizing network utilization

* Enhancing reliability

* Enables scaling

* Enhancing user satisfaction

Load balancing entails intelligent practicing of routing outgoing and even incoming HTTP traffic to either of the multiple servers for monitoring the access to the websites and scanning traffic for spyware, malware, and phishing as well as other unnecessary content. In addition to that load balancing addresses a set of concerns that are listed below:-

* Enabling the more seat addition i.e. horizontal scalability

* Balances the load of one or more local servers i.e. Server Load Balancing or SLB

* Balances the load across globally-distributed servers i.e. Global Server ...
... Load Balancing or GSLB

* Balances across multiple security devices i.e. Firewall Load Balancing

* Fault tolerance

* High accessibility

Today eminent service providers in application delivery solutions have also come up with new age load balancing solutions that helps the users to leverage parallel multi-core processing to be able to drive cost-efficiently industry-leading performance upon a rich application acceleration and load balancing feature suite for unparallel overall ownership value. Some of the advantages of these load balancing solutions are listed below:-

* There are global and local server load balancing with multi-unit clustering for 99.999% application uptime as well as data center scalability

* There is advanced application traffic management for optimized delivery of business crucial applications and other IP services

* There is offloading of application and Web servers for high efficiency, capacity as well as return on investment

* There is integrated TCP connection multiplexing, high-speed HTTP processing, compression and caching for a 5X improvement in application functionality

* SSL acceleration for safeguarding data in transit, offloading compute-intensive processes from servers and enhancing application performance

* There are reverse-proxy infrastructure with an advanced packet-inspection firewall for securing applications without influencing the performance

* There are application-specific criteria and configuration guidelines for quick implementation of optimized configurations

* Advanced performance of 2048-bit SSL encryption for aligning with NIST and certificate authority security needs

* Extensible XML-RPC for incorporation along with proprietary and other third party data center management and monitoring products

These innovative load balances enhances application performance and paces up the return-on-investment for both the small as well as large scale enterprises.

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