Microsoft Exchange
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Now, more than ever, your organization requires cost-effective and flexible communication tools. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance with features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility.
Microsoft Exchange Server, the cornerstone of Microsoft’s Unified Communications solution, is a flexible and reliable messaging platform that can help you lower your messaging costs by 50-80%, increase productivity with anywhere access to business communications, and safeguard your business with protection and compliance capabilities that help you manage risk.
Load Balancing Exchange 2010
Load Balancing Exchange 2010 Deployment Guide
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Certified Load Balancer Partner
Load Balancing for Optimal Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Performance
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Windows Terminal Services
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With Remote Desktop Services (RDS), one of the core vitalization technologies available in Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft is progressing in its vision to provide the best vitalization platform for accelerating and extending desktop and application deployments from the data center to any device. In addition to the traditional session vitalization scenario (formerly known as “Terminal Services”), Remote Desktop Services is expanding its role to provide an extensible platform for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
Load Balancing Terminal Services
Load Balancing Terminal Services Deployment Guide
Load Balancing Terminal Services Case Study
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Apache / IIS Web Servers
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As the e-commerce industry continues to grow, more businesses rely on their Web sites to communicate with customers. A high-performance Web site that quickly and reliably delivers content gains and retains customers and is crucial to a successful and competitive e-business. Few potential customers will return to a frustratingly slow Web site if the customer experiences significant delays or failure. Thus, as part of your organization's Web infrastructure planning and implementation, you may need to seriously consider how to improve your Web site's performance.
Load Balancing Web Servers
Load Balancing IIS Web Servers Deployment Guide
Load Balancing Web Servers Case Study
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Microsoft OCS
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Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 helps you deliver streamlined communications to your users, so everyone in your organization can communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most. Maintain operational control without expensive infrastructure or network upgrades, and deliver streamlined communications, including software-powered VoIP, Web and audio/video conferencing, and enterprise instant messaging.
Load Balancing OCS 2007 R2
Load Balancing OCS 2007 R2 Deployment Guide
Load Balancing for Microsoft® Office Communication Server 2007® Release 2
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Microsoft SharePoint
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The capabilities of SharePoint 2010 work together to help your company quickly respond to changing business needs. Using SharePoint 2010, your people can share ideas and expertise, create custom solutions for specific needs, and find the right business information to make better decisions. For IT, SharePoint 2010 helps you cut training and maintenance costs, save time and effort, and focus on higher business priorities.
Load Balancing Sharepoint 2010
Load Balancing Sharepoint 2010 Deployment Guide
Managing a Server Farm Running Windows SharePoint Services
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Web Proxies / Filters
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Web Proxies / Filters provide a number of functions to permit organizations to control they way their staff access the Internet. These products are often appliance based and provide functionality including Web Security & Control, URL Filtering, Content Caching, Anti SPAM / Anti Malware / Anti Virus, User Authentication and High Availability. Since secure, reliable and available Internet access is a requirement and not just a luxury, steps must be taken to ensure 100% up-time. Loadbalancer.org appliances provide the perfect solution by allowing multiple Web Proxy devices to be deployed in a load balanced and highly available cluster.
Load Balancing Web Proxies / Filters
Load Balancing Web Proxies / Filters Deployment Guide
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VMware
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In this tough economic environment, with declining budgets, IT is expected to do more with less. With cost, resource, and time pressures, how do you ensure continued innovation, while meeting your service level agreements (SLA's)? Take control of your IT and data center by building a virtualized infrastructure. With VMware virtualization, you can see immediate, quantifiable cost savings, while ensuring true business agility—the ability to rapidly respond to the changing market environment.
Load Balancing with VMware
Load Balancing with VMware Quick Start Guide
Load balancing VMware View 5.0 – Quick Reference Guide
Load Balancing with VMware Case Study
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Amazon EC2
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Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.
Load Balancing with Amazon Web Services
Load Balancing with Amazon Web Services Quick Start Guide
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Streaming Media
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Streaming media services enable the delivery of digital media directly to the end user. Streaming media can be delivered as live content, or it can be delivered as on-demand content, such as video on demand.
Loadbalancer.org provide a rock solid, 100% fault tolerant and cost effective solution that is perfect for the cost conscious IT professional, who does not want to spend the extra £10k on functionality he will never use, as with most other vendors. These appliances do exactly what it says on the tin. I'm over the moon!
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Voice over IP (VoIP) |
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Businesses who implement VoIP have a requirement to evenly distribute sessions across an IP network. Without a dedicated VoIP traffic management solution, companies may encounter decreased performance and downtime due to overloading any one server. By implementing a Loadbalancer.org product organizations can evenly distribute VoIP traffic and ultimately increase the overall performance and up-time of the servers within that network.
Load Balancing VoIP Quick Reference Guide
Load Balancing VoIP Case Study
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Oracle Application Server |
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The Oracle application server product line is the industry's most comprehensive Java platform for developing, deploying, and integrating enterprise applications. It provides the foundation for application grid, which is an architecture that enables enterprises to outperform their competitors while minimizing operational costs. |
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Microsoft Dynamics |
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Microsoft Dynamics is a line of familiar, adaptable enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions designed to meet almost any business need and help your people make important business decisions confidently. Microsoft Dynamics works like and with familiar Microsoft software – easing adoption and reducing the risks in implementing a new solution. These solutions automate and streamline financial, supply chain and business intelligence processes in a way that can help you drive business success. |
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Link Balancing
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Link load balancing is to balance traffic among multiple links from different ISP's or one ISP for better scalability and availability of Internet connectivity, and also cost saving. See Link Load Balancing for more information. SmoothWall, FatPipe & Xrio all provide appliances to do this. In our opinion, it is very difficult to support to the levels that we demand as a company. The core problem being that it only really works if your ISP supports the link balancing technology. |
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WAN Balancing
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WAN balancing is a method of evenly distributing user traffic across a WAN (Wide Area Network) in order to improve the availability and overall performance. Several vendors, including BlueCoat and Riverbed, enable inline compression for optimization with or without link balancing. It's mainly for corporate networks to save on bandwidth costs. In our opinion this can be easily fixed at the application layer, but can also be a valuable tool in the corporate cost cutting department. |
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Firewall Balancing
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Firewall load balancing allows an enterprise to easily scale, provide stateful failover, and optimize performance for firewall's.
Whilst the Loadbalancer.org Enterprise product family can be used as a firewall, we highly advise against this. In our opinion you should have separate dedicated firewall's, and dedicated load balancing devices. We also don't support reverse sticky persistence, as this is generally a nightmare to both configure and support.
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Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) |
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GSLB is the technique of distributing network traffic between multiple different geographic locations. GSLB uses DNS (Domain Name Services), which translates www.google.com into an IP address, so when you type www.google.com GSLB (through DNS) will give you the IP address of your local Google site if you are not in the US. We could quite easily follow our competitors and hack a decent PowerDNS interface onto our appliance, but we wouldn't believe in the product and we pride ourselves on our honesty. Please see here for more information on our thoughts regarding GSLB. |
