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Novell Case Study: Tractor Supply Company

Overview Tractor Supply Company is the largest retail farm and ranch store chain in the United States. As the company continues to grow, Tractor Supply Company (TSC) wanted to put in place a cost-effective, performant infrastructure to host its mission-critical systems. As a solution TSC chose to deploy a cluster of price-performant Linux servers where each server in the cluster can simultaneously read and write to volumes of shared data on a Storage Area Network (SAN).

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Publisher	Novell	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2007	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS

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