What should I choose Load Balancing or Data Partitioning?

One of our client had such requirement to cater a load balancing for their application and needed to upgrade to higher versions of SQL Server &amp; Operating systems. The current setup at their end is a SQL Server 2000 Active/Passive Cluster and the transactions per minute were good enough with this setup, due to the recent campaign of the product they are project with massive amount of transactions, for this reason there is a need to move to high end specification of servers. incase the new cluster...(<a href="http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/09/12/what-should-i-choose-load-balancing-or-data-partitioning.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlserver-qa.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2002" width="1" height="1">