Load balancing, which helps speed up Internet traffic and automatic failure recovery features, is also included in the software. Servers using NetWare Cluster Services are connected with Fast Ethernet adaptors as well as a Fibre Channel hub or...
Automatic or manual failover is supported to cater for unplanned or planned downtime for any particular server. The management workstation is just another application in this respect, and will also failover to an alternative node in the event that...
The server giant will today unveil its Enterprise Continuity program, a collection of services and technologies designed to prevent network failure by physically separating computers working together in a unified cluster.
NERSC has a 412-computer Linux cluster called the Parallel Distributed Systems Facility. Livermore already announced a 962-machine Linux computer, and its 1,152-computer Multiprogrammatic Capability Cluster ranks seventh on the November 2003...
Combining voice and data means there is requirement for one failover/recovery mechanism and immediate saving. The UK's IT chiefs voted overwhelmingly in favour of the proposition that the cost benefits and flexibility associated with VoIP outweigh...
One machine in a cluster can fill in for another that's taken down for equipment failure or an upgrade, for example. OpenVMS for Itanium will come with many of the abilities of the Alpha version - in particular a famed reliability feature called...