Techniques for separating the processing of clients' traffic to different zones

A load balancing appliance configured to separate traffic processing in a computing farm, comprising:

• an external system interface configured to receive at least a plurality of security risk indication parameters and a plurality of zoning trigger parameters;
• a zoning module for determining if a zoning mode is required in the computing farm, wherein the zoning module is further configured to determine, based on the at least a plurality of security risk indication parameters, if a client associated with an incoming traffic is a trusted client or an un-trusted client;
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• a balancer configured to forward the incoming traffic to a second group of computing resources in the computing farm when the client is determined to be an un-trusted client and to divert the incoming traffic to a first group of computing resources in the computing farm when the client is determined to be a trusted client, wherein the first group of computing resources are dynamically allocated based on at least one service-level agreement (SLA) guaranteed to the trusted client.

A computing farm, comprising:

• a first group of computing resources dynamically allocated based on at least one service-level agreement (SLA) guaranteed to a group of trusted clients;
• a second group of computing resources;
• at least one load balancing appliance connected to at least the second group of computing resources, wherein the load balancing appliance is configured to:
• determine, based on a plurality of security risk indication parameters, if a client associated with an incoming traffic is a trusted client or an un-trusted client;
• forward the incoming traffic to the second group of computing resources when the client is determined to be an un-trusted client;
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• divert the incoming traffic to the first group of computing resources when the client is determined to be a trusted client, thereby ensuring at least one service-level agreement (SLA) guaranteed to the trusted client.