Chandra Kopparapu
ISBN: 0-471-41550-2
Cloth
224 pages
February 2002

Load balancing is a technique that can be used to prevent web server overload without sacrificing performance. SAN (Storage Area Network) technology sends big data loads along different paths on the web. Balancing Data makes it possible to have streaming video and credit card processing highly available at the same time because the firewall (security) and the cache (memory) have been switched to net-work locations. The Internet Research Group predicts the market for the load bal-ancing equipment will grow from $260 million in revenue in 1999 to $4 billion by 2004.