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Clustering

ALSO CALLED: Server Clustering and Storage Clustering
DEFINITION: In computers, clustering is the use of multiple computers, typically PCs or UNIX workstations, multiple storage devices, and redundant interconnections, to form what appears to users as a single highly available system. Cluster computing can be used for load balancing as well as for high  … 
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File Serving Utility Provides Higher Performance, Lower Cost File Serving
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WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how HP's PolyServe File Serving Utility delivers scalable performance and capacity with high availability services at a fraction of the price of traditional NAS.
Posted: 19 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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eBook: Server and Storage Consolidation Alternatives
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BOOK: Effective file serving solutions are critical to ensuring that your files are easily available to those that need them. This ebook provides an overview of file serving in today's business environment along with an evaluation the different approaches.
Posted: 19 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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z Cisco Systems GigaStack Gigabit Interface Converter
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SOFTWARE LISTING: The GigaStack GBIC offers wiring closet deployment flexibility through its dual operating modes.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2002
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Windows Server Multi-Site Clustering with Geocluster®
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WHITE PAPER: In this webcast, get expert advice for implementing or optimizing Extract Transform Load (ETL) processes, and learn how to choose the best ETL software tools for your requirements and budget.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Clustering for Performance -- Scale up and Scale Out
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WEBCAST: In this expert webcast, Greg Schulz looks at clustered storage as a technique to scale both I/Os to meet transaction processing and bandwidth for video and content rich media applications.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Proactive Performance Management: Proactively Managing Service Delivery in a Multi-Tier Application Environment
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PRODUCT LITERATURE: BEZ provides BEZVision™, a proactive performance management solution that is designed to provide IT management with the information that it needs to make critical decisions about service delivery.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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High Availability and Failover: Ensuring Availability for IP-SAN Solutions
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WHITE PAPER: This document will serve to outline High Availability in detail, focusing on its implementation and operation.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Storage & Capacity Management - Presentations from Storage Decisions Chicago 2008
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PRESENTATION: Storage virtualization promises to ease storage management and improve disk usage, but there are inherent issues that need to be fully understood before embarking on a virtualization project.
Posted: 30 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
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Automate Application Recovery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE: New automated application recovery products, geared toward SMBs, keep Exchange running 24/7.
Posted: 23 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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The Benefits of Clustered Storage
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JOURNAL ARTICLE: Clustered storage combines multiple arrays or controllers to increase their performance, capacity or reliability. In many cases, it's a cost-effective way to meet today's storage needs.
Posted: 23 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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CLUSTERING DEFINITION (continued): …  availability. Advocates of clustering suggest that the approach can help an enterprise achieve 99.999 availability in some cases. One of the main ideas of cluster computing is that, to the outside world, the cluster appears to be a single system.

A common use of cluster computing is to load balance traffic on high-traffic Web sites. A Web page request is sent to a "manager" server, which then determines which of several identical or very similar Web servers to … 
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