To address that problem, developers have increasingly made use of open source load balancing software from NGINX, especially on public clouds where deploying virtual or physical load balancer ...

Hardware-based or software-based load balancers are available; the latter is usually more versatile and affordable, particularly in cloud contexts.

VMware, Inc. today announced continued momentum in providing customers a modern software alternative to legacy hardware load balancers, and new platform enhancements for the NSX Advanced Load ...

Software-based load balancers The only problem I see with software-based load balancing is that a process done in software is inherently slower than a process done in hardware.

Rackspace's cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability.

Facebook’s latest tool is called Katran, which is a software-based load balancing tool it said has made its backend networking infrastructure far more reliable and scalable.

At the inaugural EnvoyCon that ran in Seattle, USA, the eBay engineering team talked about running the Envoy Proxy at the edge as a replacement for hardware-based load balancers. Key learnings ...

Google is giving up yet another of its internal projects to the open-source world. Its latest contribution is called Seesaw, and it’s described as a load-balancing platform based on Linux built ...

Customers Choose VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer to Replace Thousands of Legacy Load Balancers with Modern, Software-based Solution ...