A load balancer can be used to increase the capacity of a server farm beyond that of a single server. It can also allow the service to continue even in the face of server down time due to server failure or server maintenance.

It also perform server monitoring of services in a web server farm. In case of failure of a service, the load balancer continues to perform load balancing across the remaining services that are still up. In case of failure of all the servers bound to a virtual server, requests may be sent to a backup virtual server (if configured) or optionally redirected to  a configured URL.

EMERGE provides Load Balancing services to our dedicated server and server co-location customers via F5 Big-IP load balancers. EMERGE will operate and maintain the F5 Big-IP load balancers while you can concentrate on your core business. EMERGE chose F5 Big-IP load balancers because:

• F5 is the recognised leader in Application Delivery Networking, providing solutions that make sure business applications are always secure, fast and available. Over 10,000 organisations and services providers worldwide uses F5 to keep their application running. This includes 9 of the Fortune 10 companies and 9 of the top 10 financial firms. Microsoft, Oracle, BEA and SAP all recommend F5 to their customers.
  
  
• F5 Big-IP load balancers provides high-availability, intelligent load balancing. BIG-IP provides the benefits of traffic management, traditionally reserved for Web-only applications, to all IP based applications and Web services.
  
  
• F5 BIG-IP ensures business continuity, security and performance by intercepting, inspecting, transforming and directing application and Web services requests, based on values found n the header or payload.

Contact our consultants if you have further enquiries on regards to our LoadBALANCE! services or if you would require customised load balancing services.

Please call our office at +603 7727 2280 to speak to one of our sales consultants or e-mail us at sales@emerge.com.my