Load Balancing and Fault Tolerant Solutions

If you are responsible for managing your organizations IT infrastructure, load balancing and fault tolerance can be a major concern for your network.

Panurgy, a network company that has been helping clients keep their networks running effectively since 1984 provides powerful solutions for load balancing and fault tolerant solutions. These solutions are particularly important for smaller, growth-oriented organizations.

In situations where a single server or cluster can’t provide the throughput required for a critical application, load balancing of multiple servers offers a solution that enhances performance and also provides fault tolerance by working around the failed server. Firewalls and routers can also be set up in a load-balanced and fault-tolerant configuration, so that failures of a single device or circuit have limited impact on overall system functionality. This type of solution makes it much easier for organizations to manage the impacts of reduced resources or bandwidth than to deal with complete outages.

Load balancing solutions are especially well suited for many web based applications where the front-end web servers can utilize the services of a back-end clustered SQL Server data repository.  Citrix Application Servers and Microsoft Exchange Servers are also ideal candidates for a load-balanced configuration. Load balancing can provide greatly improved operational reliability because failed servers are transparently removed, making such failures transparent to users.

Benefits of Panurgy Load Balancing and Fault Tolerant Solutions

Once you have established a base architecture for a load-balancing environment, you have cleared the way for future growth and scalability of your network.

Panurgy offers a wide range of load balancing technologies covering server balancing, application balancing, and LAN/WAN infrastructure routing. Vendors and technologies used by Panurgy include:

	Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Load Balancing Manager
	Citrix Metaframe, Access Suite, Presentation Server, and Access Gateway
	Cisco Content Services Switches and Cisco IOS-based routers