The plain fact is that most single-node server platforms will struggle to match the levels of availability that businesses now demand. Simple clustering provides a partial solution, offering continued service through failover if the primary server...
Analysts polled by earnings tracking firm FirstCall expect Dell to stick with its previous guidance of a profit of 23 cents per share on revenue of $9.5bn. That cluster includes more than 2,000 Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux.
The guidance we are giving in general is to treat the critical ones first. Microsoft has released 10 software security advisories, warning Windows users and corporate administrators of 22 new flaws that affect the company's products.
Each node should also have a second network interface card installed, so one adapter can be configured with the virtual IP address and will handle the traffic that's destined for the cluster and the other is configured with the dedicated IP...
STS will offer extended federation and privacy support, and integrated resource discovery and management, among other features, Microsoft said. On Thursday, Microsoft also released the first beta version of Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster...
Once an organisation has worked out what to monitor - and how - it can begin collecting data and establish a baseline, which represents normal operations in the area being monitored. Plug an SNMP (simple network management protocol) or RMON (remote...