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