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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2006
Bahri B Bali, Cary, NC (US);
Gordan G Greenlee, Endicott, NY (US);
Richard E Weingarten, Erie, CO (US);
Bahri B Bali, Cary, NC (US);
Gordan G Greenlee, Endicott, NY (US);
Richard E Weingarten, Erie, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for measuring performance and balancing workload of sites and servers is provided. The method comprises measuring performance of one or more servers located at different sites of the network and computing a performance metric for each of the sites or one or more servers at each of the sites. The method further comprises providing a bias to the performance metric and routing a request to one of the different sites or one of the one or more servers based on the biased performance metric.