Wiley Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls and Caches

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Wiley Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls and Caches




Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition
Language: english
ISBN: 0471415502
Paperback: 208 pages
Data: January 25, 2002
Format: PDF


Descripton:
From an industry insider–a close look at high-performance, end-to-end switching solutions Load balancers are fast becoming an indispensable solution for handling the huge traffic demands of the Web. Their ability to solve a multitude of network and server bottlenecks in the Internet age ranges from dramatic improvements in server farm scalability to removing the firewall as a network bottleneck. This book provides a detailed, up-to-date, technical discussion of this fast-growing, multibillion dollar market, covering the full spectrum of topics–from server and firewall load balancing to transparent cache switching to global server load balancing. In the process, the author delivers insight into the way new technologies are deployed in network infrastructure and how they work. Written by an industry expert who hails from a leading Web switch vendor, this book will help network and server administrators improve the scalability, availability, manageability, and security of their servers, firewalls, caches, and Web sites.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgment.
Introduction.
Server Load Balancing: Basic Concepts.
Server Load Balancing: Advanced Concepts.
Network Design with Load Balancers.
Global Server Load Balancing.
Load-Balancing Firewalls.
Load-Balancing Caches.
Application Examples.
The Future of Load-Balancing Technology.
Appendix: Standard Reference.
References.
Index.

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