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Clustering
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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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When High Availability is Not Enough
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Learn how disaster recovery complements high availability and what technologies are available to enhance high availability in your IT organization.
Posted: 29 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 29 Jul 2008
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Clustering for Performance -- Scale up and Scale Out
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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.
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Building a Highly Virtualized Storage Environment
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In this webcast, Enterprise Strategy Group's Steve Duplessie discusses important storage virtualization technologies within a storage system and why highly virtualized storage systems are valuable today -- and will be vital in the future.
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Scaling Storage with Clustering
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In this Podcast, storage expert Greg Schulz breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject.
Posted: 31 Aug 2007 | Premiered: 31 Aug 2007, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Scaling Storage with Clustering
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In this Videocast, storage expert Greg Schulz breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject.
Posted: 31 Aug 2007 | Premiered: 31 Aug 2007, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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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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