With NetWare Cluster Services, Novell is finally providing a high-availability solution for NetWare 5. McDonald said: "High availability is becoming more of an issue across the board, especially with the highly publicised eBay and stock trading...
There has been a well-recognised discrepancy between the actual availability delivered by popular platforms such as NT and the increasing dependency of business models on very high levels of uninterrupted service.
Project Liberty is all about creating, managing and authenticating online identities and brokering services based on information related to that identity. Strong security is worthless if difficult to implement or use.
After years of lagging behind other countries in terms of both availability and take-up, Britain now looks like a trailblazer, at least in terms of coverage. No other major industrialised nation is expected to boast such high availability.
The good news is that remote replication is increasingly available to smaller companies as bandwidth and storage get cheaper. The easy part is creating the plan - the hard thing is maintaining it. Tighter integration of the supply chains means that...
The high-availability technology is an extension of the "replay" feature that exists in experimental form in VMware's current Workstation product, geared for programmers. Specialised hardware and software provides high availability today, but...