Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls, and Caches

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.

Auteur
Chandra Kopparapu (San Jose, CA) is Product Marketing Manager for Foundry Networks, a leading provider of high performance end-to-end switching solutions for enterprises. Chandra, who has an Electrical Engineering degree and a Masters in Marketing from UC Berkeley, worked at Compaq as product manager prior to Foundry. He writes frequently for Network World.

Résumé
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.

Contenu
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.