With NetWare Cluster Services, Novell is finally providing a high-availability solution for NetWare 5. Load balancing, which helps speed up Internet traffic and automatic failure recovery features, is also included in the software.
This is essentially what Veritas has achieved with the Veritas Cluster Server for NT. Veritas has, for a number of years, provided this level of functionality for Sun Solaris and HP's HP/UX Unix systems.
Purohit said SANs are the only way to support a fast-growing Internet business, because they enable more and more servers to be added to a cluster, while keeping systems running. Robin Purohit, senior director of SAN and clustering at storage...
Because the core functionality of all application servers has now reached commodity status, vendors have to differentiate their products by using value-added features and/or services to enhance the provision of elements such as load balancing, or...
Desktop virtualisation, allowing multiple OSes and software versions to run in different windows on the same PC, can increase productivity for software developers and testers by allowing them to create or test applications for multiple software...
And let's face it, if you want to 'big up' your credentials in areas such as load balancing, bandwidth management and application or service availability - as Citrix is since its acquisition of NetScaler two years ago - what better client to pick...