energy requirements

Scotland sure is making headlines this week. First, they're taking the lead on mapping wave and tidal energy, now the country will be home to the first tidal-powered data center.

China needs a lot of energy to power its economy and the country's reliance on coal has led to major problems with unsafe work conditions and pollution. By 2006, China's energy requirements had become the second highest in the world, doubling its needs from the past decade.

High-volume network applications are driving the need for optimization technologies. Web transaction rates and throughput continue to increase exponentially with Internet-driven applications and media-rich communications. In response, customers in all verticals are considering deploying or upgrading server load-balancing technology to handle high-volume network applications.

Here are four tips for choosing the right server load-balancing technology for your Web applications.