Software-defined principles for application services are revolutionizing load balancing strategies

Flexible infrastructure choices and application architectures are changing the way that modern enterprises run their computing. Enterprises have become application-centric, investing significant effort and resources on continuous delivery goals and DevOps practices to achieve automation of routine IT and operations tasks. With application owners seeking public-cloud-like simplicity and agility in their own data centers, IT teams are under pressure to reduce wait times to provision applications and updates.