Cloud Load Balancing: Achieving Application Availability, Performance and Security

The business impact of high latency and downtime for many businesses can run into the hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars very  quickly. Primary causes for these business challenges include server capacity constraints, application failures, and ineicient routes. Companies have traditionally deployed physical load balancers in their data centers to thwart latency and unavailability issues. But the dynamics of this solution approach is changing, shifting from  application delivery control in data center environments to the edge of the network. To thwart high latency and unavailability, organizations are turning to load balancing. With this in mind, the white paper concludes with a checklist of nine criteria that an organization needs to consider when evaluating load balancing solutions.