DESC: according to industry analysts fewer than 20% of mission critical internet applications achieve internal objectives for continuous availability. challenges include maintaining uptime when servers fail scaling data center capabilities to handle increased load and protecting infrastructure from network vulnerabilities. designed to help organizations achieve their availability objectives the barracuda load balancer integrates ip load balancing and network intrusion prevention into an affordable and easy to use appliance. the barracuda load balancer provides comprehensive failover capabilities in case of server failure distribution of traffic across multiple servers and integrated protection from network intrusions.