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, ...

To get the most from a cloud computing architecture, it's imperative to underpin your infrastructure with the right networking management tools. Microsoft Azure includes an array of load balancing and ...

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Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...