GitHub will release as open source the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), its internally developed load balancer. GLB was originally built to accommodate GitHub’s need to serve billions of HTTP, Git, and SSH ...

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Given the way applications need to dynamically scale, load balancers have become a standard component of most IT environments. But when a developer initially builds their application, they often don’t ...

In the fast-paced world of the internet, where every second counts and interruptions are a no-go, imagine a behind-the-scenes wizard making sure everything runs smoothly. That wizard is the Open ...

Newest Release Connects and Protects Applications with Improved Speed, Scale and Security across VMware and non-VMware Environments PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today ...

Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems. Google is known to fiercely guard its data center secrets ...

With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced continued momentum in providing customers a modern software alternative to legacy hardware load balancers, and new platform ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PASS Summit 2016 -- ScaleArc, the leading provider of database load balancing software, announced today that the latest release of its ScaleArc for SQL Server software ...