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technological innovation over the period has facilitated the business
enterprises with digital workspaces. The corporate offices work
through highly networked environment and use large number of software
applications for the day-to-day operational requirements. Further
with globalization, these enterprises have also expanded globally
with distantly located regions. However, real-time connectivity
between all the far-off offices and remotely working project teams
are maintained with the help of dedicated servers.
The
technological enhancements further made it possible for the offshore
teams, outsourced vendors and remote workforce to access the
corporate network irrespective of the distance and device. Such
anytime anywhere access to the various applications, files and
folders from the office workstation and business critical data and
information taxes the servers and the network when loaded with
increasing demands. Added to this the BYOD apps
available only increases the load on the servers and clogging of the
network leading to reduced speed and performance. Under such
circumstances, load
balancers help
the enterprises in easing out the situations.
Load
balancers are generally used in heavy traffic laden computer networks
like the Internet and corporate networks of multinational companies.
Defined as a computer networking methodology load balancing helps to
distribute the workload across multiple resources to achieve optimal
utilization with maximum throughput, and minimum response time. , and
avoid overload. Dedicated hardware, software and servers carry on
these functions. The software program helps to track the front-end
client’s access services and forwards requests to the back-end
servers to enhance website performance as well as reduce the burden
of a particular server.
Further
with most of the global enterprises having distantly located project
teams working either in offshore locations or forms a part of the
mobile workforce, providing them with remote
desktop access
and to the corporate data becomes very important. Networks of large
corporate houses or small and medium enterprises or data centers with
vast amount of data and application storage and transfer resort to
use of load balancers.
For
the new age enterprises load balancers offers essential
benefits such as:
●
Minimized
load on individual systems with reduced response time
● Maximum network utilization
● It enhances reliability and improves user satisfaction.
● Maximum network utilization
● It enhances reliability and improves user satisfaction.
However,
with issues relating to web securities, the load balancers
intelligently routes the hypertext transfer protocol traffic to
servers which are involved in controlling access to websites. Besides
these also scan the traffic for any spyware, phishing attacks and
malicious components entering the network thus ensuring an efficient
system of business
continuity planning.
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