The help desk is experiencing a higher than normal amount of calls from users reporting slow
response from the application server. After analyzing the data from a packet capturing tool, the
head of the network engineering department determines that the issue is due, in part from the
increase of personnel recently hired to perform application development. Which of the following
would BEST assist in correcting this issue?

A.
Load balancer

B.
Spam filter

C.
VPN Concentrator

D.
NIDS