Audience

Companies looking for a load balancing software to manage their business application servers

About IBM Load Balancer

As strain increases on a website or business application, eventually, a single server cannot support the full workload. To meet demand, organizations spread the workload over multiple servers called "load balancing", this practice prevents a single server from becoming overworked, which could cause it to slow down, drop requests, and even crash. Load balancing lets you evenly distribute network traffic to prevent failure caused by overloading a particular resource. This strategy improves the performance and availability of applications, websites, databases, and other computing resources. It also helps process user requests quickly and accurately. From a user perspective, load balancing acts as an invisible facilitator that sits between a client and a group of servers, ensuring connection requests don’t get lost. Without load balancing, applications, websites, databases, and online services would likely fail when demand gets too high.

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Integrations

API:
Yes, IBM Load Balancer offers API access
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IBM
Founded: 1911
United States
www.ibm.com/cloud/load-balancer

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IBM Load Balancer Frequently Asked Questions

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IBM Load Balancer Product Features

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Load Balancing Not Supported
IP Traffic Optimization Not Supported
Traffic Chaining / Steering Not Supported
SSL Offload Not Supported
Web Application Firewall (WAF) Not Supported
CGNAT Not Supported
Proxy / Reverse Proxy Not Supported
Content Redirection Not Supported
Server Health Monitoring Not Supported

Load Balancing

Content Routing Not Supported
Schedulers Not Supported
Data Compression Not Supported
Predefined Protocols Not Supported
Authentication Not Supported
Content Caching Not Supported
Redundancy Checking Not Supported
SSL Offload Not Supported
Reverse Proxy Not Supported
Automatic Configuration Not Supported
Health Monitoring Not Supported