Cloud Load Balancing - What is Right for your Network Infrastructure?
Public Cloud computer service offers a lease-to-use network infrastructure that shares resources such as computers, routers, load balancers, storage, network security tools, and applications among its clients. Among the top public Cloud model providers are Amazon® Web Services (AWS), Microsoft® Azure, and Google® Cloud.
There have been many pros and cons to using a public Cloud computing environment ever since its beginnings. Immediate benefits include low upfront costs, availability of diverse services, scalability, and location-independence. On the other hand, security, privacy, long-term costs, and other unknown risks remain as major concerns. Potential Cloud users also face the challenge of choosing wisely among the various current Cloud service level options of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Sofware as a Service), or PaaS (Platform as a Service).
As the network market landscape continues to change and transitions to the Cloud (public, private,
hybrid) continues to grow at every service level. When considering a move to a Cloud computing
service, carefully review all service levels to assure every aspect of your choice will meet your current and future network requirements.
A vital part of the services selection is identifying how your network traffic will be managed in a Cloud computing environment. Public Cloud computer services generally offer some sort of load balancing. Such load balancing will often meet the needs of many businesses. Conversely, for many others, it may be too basic, lacking the necessary capabilities of a full-featured, robust load balancer to support diverse network infrastructure designs and traffic handling requirements.
Network Traffic Load Balancing
Network traffic load balancing emerged in the late 90’s to support real-time interaction and high availability by managing and securing the ever expanding network traffic from such Internet web services as email, instant messaging, and voice and video streaming.
But that was only the beginning. Today’s Internet is exploding with increased use from mobile devices and from the Internet of Things (IoT). Applications are becoming more sophisticated, in response to
users’ demands. All these changes pose increasing challenges to network infrastructures. Therefore load balancing functions are critical to assure peak performance and high availability of network traffic to the back-end servers where the applications are processed.
Will you be satisfied with your Cloud provider’s load balancing? If you have a simple network with low traffic needs then it may suite you well. If you require broader variety of load balancing scheduling methods, for example, then a full-featured load balancer is the only choice.
You will discover differences when you look into various full-featured load balancing solutions. The Virtual WebMux™ Network Traffic Manager (“WebMux”) from AVANU® is a superb and proven enterprise-class full-featured load balancing solution. It accommodates sophisticated network designs and affords the flexibility to meet and manage the most stringent network traffic demands. It will assure reliable peak performance and high availability in a Cloud computing environment.
WebMux is an all-inclusive load balancing solution that integrates application delivery network (ADN) load balancing, global server load balancing (GSLB) for geographic disaster recovery, and affinity services. It also includes its FireEdge™ for Apps, a Web Application Firewall (WAF).
In a public Cloud environment, correctly identifying how to manage your network is vital.
WebMux a full-featured solution provides load balancing to manage, coontrol, and secure your local network traffic reliably. Overall, it assures the high performance and high-reliability of your network. The WebMux is easy to use and manage while being a highly cost-effective and affordable solution for your Cloud network.
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