Incapsula, the cloud-based website security and performance service, has announced the cloud-based, integrated, Layer 7-aware, global and local load balancer to provide in- and cross-data center load balancing as well as automatic failover for disaster recovery. This new capability augments Incapsula’s Application Security, DDoS Mitigation, and Content Delivery Network capabilities to provide customers with a more comprehensive Cloud-based Application Delivery Service.
Incapsula’s integrated global and local load balancer provides three major service components through a single global Application Delivery Platform:
Global Load Balancing
Many IT organizations operate their Web applications out of multiple hosting facilities globally for in-region performance optimization and regionally customized services or content. Balancing traffic has typically been achieved through DNS-based routing, which is neither application nor Layer 7-aware. Incapsula’s global load balancing provides geographically optimized Web application delivery directly from the cloud.
Global Failover
Used for disaster recovery, global failover allows IT organizations that operate disaster recovery data centers to easily divert all application traffic to an alternative data center in case of emergency.†
Local In-Datacenter Load Balancing
Including an array of load distribution schemes that include least pending HTTP requests, least open connections, IP hashing, and others, this is the most common form of load balancing used to distribute traffic load across an array of Web servers and is typically dominated by on-premises physical or virtual appliances.
