Traditional load balancing methods may limit the performance of cloud-based applications, especially in a heterogeneous cloud environments.

If anything, Lori warns, cloud computing leads to poor visibility and renders load-balancing strategies useless.

Load balancing algorithms decides the allocation of the server as per the process. Thus, efficient load balancing is a major challenge encountered by every cloud service provider.

Technical Terms Cloud Computing: A model for delivering computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and analytics—over the Internet on a pay-per-use basis.

Rackspace's cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability.