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...
In order to provide scalability from commodity-class servers it is necessary to deploy a large number of nodes and to provide load balancing as well as failover. Service groups can be defined within a cluster where each service group represents an...
PolyServe develops software for server clustering and load balancing, and the two companies hope to tap into the growing market for ebusiness reliability products. McAfee Understudy and McAfee LocalCluster will offer IP service monitoring, failure...
In doing so, an F5 solution can be used for load balancing, inspecting the packets then distributing them across servers in an appropriate manner (the box can even take a feed from the servers, to support its decision making).
Parsons said that many companies market clustering products - where a series of machines are tightly linked together to provide load-balancing and resiliency when working on massive tasks - as grid technologies.
He said the bank is also looking at satellite, BlackBerrys, walkie-talkies and SMS as communication alternatives as well as at sharing initiatives across the whole organisation - which is headed by Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank, an institution that must...