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When the environment scaled and capacity limits were breached, a “rip-and-replace” approach was
required to scale the environment vertically with higher-performant instances.

While this is often still sufficient, there are many cases where flexible approaches, such as buying access
to capacity pools or having scale-out/scale-in mechanisms directly tied to actual usage, are desirable as
well. When assessing a provider, ensure that these options exist and that there is a way to transition
between models based on the changes in your business’s requirements. This will ensure that you will be
able to achieve maximum agility.

What load balancing looks like now is the result of a progressive evolution over the past couple of
decades. It’s likely to change even more significantly over the next few years thanks to a convergence of
cloud and digital transformation trends combined with foundational changes to how modern applications
are built. The underlying principles that made these solutions such a critical part of current application
infrastructure, however, still remain applications and services that need to be highly available, performant
and secure, and certain functions need to remain best handled outside of the application itself.

This means that when considering what solutions to implement, enterprises should consider how the
options they review will support those needs in the environment they expect to have over the next several
years. Given the likelihood of having a hybrid cloud model, businesses should significantly factor in the
characteristics associated with a heterogeneous cloud ecosystem. In doing so, they can ensure an
optimal application experience enabled by a well-configured and adaptable load balancer and can evolve
their infrastructure wherever their cloud infrastructure strategy takes them.

About the Author

Jason Dover, Vice President of Product Strategy at Progress, and
have over a decade of technology leadership experience working
across enterprise organizations. At NYSE Euronext and Deutsche
Bank, I provided consultative services for directory and messaging
integration projects including the integration of key systems
between Liffe, AEMS, AMEX and Euronext with the New York Stock

Exchange. At Kemp Technologies, I held various roles across sales,
marketing and product management. I am currently President of
Product Strategy, responsible for overall application experience
(AX) product portfolio direction, product marketing, support of
corporate development activities, strategic partner engagement and
Horizon 2 initiatives.

Jason can be reached online at ([email protected], https://twitter.com/jaysdover) and at our
company website https://www.progress.com/

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