subject: Features & Benefits Of New Age Load Balancers [print this page] Load balancing can be best defined as a computer method to distribute work load all through the computer clusters, servers, central processing units, disk drives, network links or any other resources. Load balancing comes with its own set of advantages, such as :
Reduces the load on individual systems and minimizes response time
Increase network utilization
Improves reliability
Facilitates scaling
Enhance user satisfaction
In terms of web security products, load balancing is defined as the process of routing incoming/outgoing HTTP traffic intelligently to any server responsible for website admission. It is also accountable for scanning the traffic for malware, spyware and phishing scams and other unnecessary elements. Load balancers solve certain issues that include the following:
Facilitating the addition of more seats (horizontal scalability)
Balancing the load of one or more local server (Server Load Balancing or SLB)
Balancing load across globally-distributed servers (Global Server Load Balancing or GSLB)
Balancing across multiple security devices (Firewall Load Balancing)
Fault tolerance
High availability
Advanced Load Balancers and Its Features
Today companies specializing in RDP Remote Access have introduced new age load balancers having unique features. They are as follows:
Leads to local and global server load balancing, multi-unit clustering for 99.999% application uptime and data center scalability
Offers high-end application-fluent traffic management for optimized delivery of business critical applications and IP services
Application and Web offloading servers for greater efficiency, capacity and ROI
Provides integrated TCP connection multiplexing, high-speed HTTP processing, compression and caching for a 5X improvement in application performance
There is SSL acceleration for safeguarding data in transit, offloading compute-intensive processes from servers and enhancing application performance
Helps in reverse-proxy architecture with a packet-inspection firewall for securing applications without impacting performance
There are Application-specific certifications and configuration directions for fast execution of optimized configurations
Advanced load balancers help to leverage parallel multi-core processing to cost-efficiently drive industry-leading function over a rich load balancing and application acceleration feature set for the unparalleled ownership value. These devices are accessible on application delivery controller hardware and are engineered for cloud, modem data center and other virtual platforms. In addition to that, it also helps to improve application function and speed up the ROI from small as well as large scale enterprises.
