We are developing an asp.net web application for an internal company website. The web app makes heavy use of an SQL database and I feel that future bottlenecks will come down to SQL performance. In ...

I'm working on a project for a client and we are developing a proposed network structure for their needs.<BR><BR>At the moment there is no budget. $500,000 would not be an unreasonable order, once ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

Network load balancing allows system processing resources to be multiplexed to remove the traffic jam that results when you try to take a million packets flying across a fast network connection and ...