We all know that the IT industry is one of the fastest-growing industries across the globe and cloud computing has made a tremendous impact on the IT industry’s growth over the past few years. Almost all industries are shifting to cloud computing because of its prominent technology that allows thousands of applications and files to be hosted on the cloud. Cloud includes cloud servers, cloud-based, cloud storage, cloud infrastructure, cloud computing, etc. Load balancing is one of the important parts of the cloud computing environment. In this blog, we will discuss the importance of load balancing in cloud computing. But before starting this discussion it’s important to get to know about cloud computing and load balancing.
What are Cloud Computing and its benefits?
Cloud computing is an on-demand delivery of IT resources like data storage, servers, databases, networking, and software. In simple terms, cloud computing allows you to store and access data and various applications over the internet instead of your computer hard drive. There are lots of benefits of cloud computing like:
Elasticity: Cloud computing allows users to scale resources up and down as per their business needs.
Agility: The cloud allows us to create an agile infrastructure. It provides access to a wide range of the latest technology that helps you to scale up in a faster way.
Easy Deployment: Cloud allows you to expand your application in multiple regions with just a few clicks.
Cost Saving: Cloud’s on-demand spending provides cost-saving by eliminating unused server costs.
What is Load Balancing?
The first thing that comes to mind with the Load Balancing term is something that balances the load. That is the exact role of load balancing in Cloud Computing. Load Balancing is the process of distributing the workload or traffic across multiple servers that are running in a cloud environment so that servers can work smoothly and efficiently. Load Balancing is mainly used to prevent servers from unnecessary load and possible breakdown from a heavy load.
In the cloud environment, we can call load balancing a “Traffic Cop” who manages the potentially chaotic situation. It also performs health checks to ensure continuous availability and smooth functioning of servers.
Why is Load Balancing important to the Cloud Computing Environment?
After knowing about load balancing, we can say load balancing plays a prominent role in cloud environments. It is one of the vital components of the cloud computing environment that maintains the availability of servers and distribution of workloads. Let’s take a look at the benefits of load balancing in a cloud computing environment:
Enhance Performance: Load balancer allows you to add or remove any resource without disrupting work in any location. I will enhance your application performance by eliminating downtime.
Flexibility: Load
Enhance Performance: The load balancer delivers the flexibility to manage any sudden mishaps like if any node in your network fails then the load balancer comes into play and shifts your application to another node. It allows server maintenance without any disruption in services.
Scalability: We all know that cloud computing has better scalability. A boost in traffic can disrupt the application and affect performance if not managed properly. Load Balancing allows you to add one or more virtual servers as per demand without any disruption in services. Whenever there is high traffic on a website then a new server comes online and the load balancer accommodates that new server efficiently without affecting application performance. This whole process often requires a little downtime.
Redundancy: When you use load balancing to maintain an application, it comes with built-in redundancy. This means if your server fails, then the load balancer will divert all traffic to another server without affecting the user.
Enhance the security: Load Balancing is not just about managing the traffic, but it also helps in neutralizing any DDOS Attack. Whenever there is any malicious activity on the application, the load balancer not only detects but also shifts to another server to neutralize any attack.
How can ZVA6000 help?
ZVA6000 Virtual Appliance Load Balancers are best-in-class load balancer solutions that provide massive scalability, high availability, and increased security to high‑traffic applications. As a software load balancer, ZVA6000 is much more affordable as compared to hardware solutions. It can be easily integrated with your existing infrastructure to become a productive and cost-saving setup. ZVA6000 allows you to scale up or down by adding or removing servers to your application without any downtime. To learn more about the benefits of the ZVA6000 Virtual Load Balancer. Please visit ZVA6000 Virtual Appliance Load Balancer.
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Gaurav Pratap
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