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Jun 19, 2013

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ALSO CALLED: Server Clustering, 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 availability. Advocates of clustering suggest that the approach can help an enterprise achieve 99.999 availability … Definition continues below.
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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Blades Customer sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company and AMD WHITE PAPER: Inside, review the 11 leading blade server vendors as reported by a recent Gartner research study. Learn more about their individual strengths and cautions to help you determine a best-fit hardware for your unique IT landscape. Posted: 25 Feb 2013 \| Published: 25 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Clustering \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Hardware Management \| Hardware Selection \| Infrastructure Management \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Management

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing sponsored by SUSE WHITE PAPER: Discover how your organization can support high performance computing with the use of a Linux operating system. Learn more about interoperability and hybrid high performance computing, supported vs. non-supported Linux, and much more. Posted: 07 Jun 2012 \| Published: 07 Jun 2012 TOPICS: Clustering \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Linux \| Linux Clusters \| Operating Systems \| Systems Integration \| Systems Management

Buyer’s Checklist: Scale-out storage systems sponsored by SearchStorage.com WHITE PAPER: Scale-out NAS systems can accommodate data growth simply by adding more capacity resources; and processing power can be increased as needed. Posted: 10 May 2012 \| Published: 08 May 2012 TOPICS: Clustering \| Data Storage \| NAS \| NAS Software \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure

Uptime and the Value of Clustering for Linux Servers sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization. Posted: 09 Aug 2010 \| Published: 09 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Clustering \| Data Center Management \| Fault Management \| Fault Tolerance \| High Availability \| Linux \| Open Source \| RAID \| SAN \| Server Management

Dell 2-2-1 Solutions: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell PowerEdge R410 Servers sponsored by Dell and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This configuration guide walks you through the critical activities that take place during a virtualization deployment and describes a recommended reference architecture that can help you achieve your desired results. Learn more about the key features of this technology and how to properly enable them in this essential resource. Posted: 19 Sep 2012 \| Published: 19 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Clustering \| Configuration Management \| Hardware Virtualization \| Microsoft Exchange \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Migration

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g Release 2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to save on IT resources while supporting new and existing business applications with Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)'s high availability and scalability. Posted: 05 Jul 2012 \| Published: 30 Nov 2010 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Database Administration \| Database Architectures \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| High Availability \| Oracle (Product) \| Private cloud computing \| Relational Database Management Software

A Technical Overview of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the versatile design of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 along with powerful, bundled virtualization capabilities makes it an ideal platform for consolidating enterprise servers and workloads and deploying multi-tiered applications with Web, database, and application components. Posted: 24 Apr 2012 \| Published: 24 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Clustering \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Database Server Software \| Databases \| Enterprise Applications Software \| Oracle (Product)

A Technical Overview of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the versatile design of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 along with powerful, bundled virtualization capabilities makes it an ideal platform for consolidating enterprise servers and workloads and deploying multi-tiered applications with Web, database, and application components. Posted: 11 Apr 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Clustering \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Database Server Software \| Databases \| Enterprise Applications Software \| Oracle (Product)

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: System Overview sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an Engineered System consisting of software, firmware, and hardware designed to meet the highest standards of reliability, serviceability and performance. Posted: 09 Apr 2012 \| Published: 15 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Clustering \| Hardware \| Oracle (Product) \| Private Cloud \| Private cloud computing \| Server Hardware

Dell: Expanding Its Position as an HPC Market Leader sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: With several offerings available, choosing the ideal high performance computing (HPC) offering for your business can be a daunting task. This resource examines one well-reputed HPC vendor and explains how it differentiates itself in the competitive marketplace. Posted: 02 Apr 2012 \| Published: 01 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cluster Management \| Clustering \| Hardware \| High Performance Computing \| Processor Architectures \| Server Hardware \| Storage Architectures

RESIN CLOUD SUPPORT 3rd Generation Clustering For Elastic Cloud Scaling sponsored by Caucho Technology WHITE PAPER: Java and PHP Web applications can be difficult to deploy, scale and maintain in cloud environments using existing technology. Read this white paper to learn how clustering technology provides the elasticity needed to ensure the capacity, reliability and availability necessary for cloud-enabled Web applications. Posted: 01 Mar 2012 \| Published: 23 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Server Software \| Cloud Computing \| Cluster Management \| Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Java \| Load Balancing \| PHP \| Server Provisioning \| Web Applications Architectures \| Web Applications Management

Dynamic Routing Architecture sponsored by Progress Software WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to find out how dynamic routing architecture (DRA) optimizes communications beyond clustering in complex, distributed topologies to enable easier scaling and greater agility in changing the IT environment to meet changing business needs and market conditions. Posted: 28 Nov 2011 \| Published: 28 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Cluster Management \| Clustering \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Integration \| High Availability \| Routing \| Routing Protocols \| WAN

High Availability and Load Balancing sponsored by Progress Software WHITE PAPER: This paper, the third in a series on enterprise data integration, examines how "connection-weighted load balancing" provides fast, reliable, highly available cluster processing. Posted: 28 Nov 2011 \| Published: 31 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Data Integration \| High Availability \| Load Balancing \| Load Testing

Dell DX Object Storage Platform - Advanced Storage Node Configuration sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The Dell DX Object Storage Platform provides configuration of cluster-wide parameters through the web-based management console on the DX Cluster Services Node (CSN). This white paper provides instructions on configuring advanced configurations through the node configuration files. Posted: 01 May 2011 \| Published: 27 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Clustering \| Configuration Management \| Data Storage \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Management

Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2: An Option of Oracle Database sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a technical overview of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 with an emphasis on the features and functionality that can be implemented to provide the highest availability and scalability for your enterprise applications. Posted: 22 Mar 2011 \| Published: 01 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Database Administration \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Oracle (Product) \| Storage Management

Getting Your Wireless Together to Save Time, Improve Reception sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: When you “cluster” standalone wireless access points, you can improve reception and roaming, strengthen security, and save many hours of technical labor—all without the expense of a wireless controller. Continue reading to learn more about clustering improvement. Posted: 21 Jan 2011 \| Published: 21 Jan 2011 TOPICS: 802.11n \| Cluster Management \| Clustering \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| WLAN \| WLAN Access Points

Leveraging Clustered File System Software to Deliver Superior Application Availability sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: Transactional application availability is more important than ever to businesses in a globalized economy. This Vendor Spotlight examines the various architectural approaches to ensuring application uptime and availability, particularly a clustered file system approach with clustered services. Posted: 28 Dec 2010 \| Published: 28 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Business Continuity Planning \| Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Data Replication \| Downtime \| File Management Programs \| High Availability \| Storage Architectures

Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications With Confidence sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: Within any business, a number of applications exist that are critical to the success of the business. As a result, these applications and the systems they run on require a higher level of availability. The trade off with increasing application availability is an additional cost in terms of redundant hardware and complexity. Posted: 27 Dec 2010 \| Published: 27 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Clustering \| High Availability \| Server Management \| SQL \| Tiered Storage \| VMware

Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications With Confidence sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: Within any business, a number of applications exist that are critical to the success of the business. As a result, these applications and the systems they run on require a higher level of availability. The trade off with increasing application availability is an additional cost in terms of redundant hardware and complexity. Posted: 15 Nov 2010 \| Published: 15 Nov 2010 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Clustering \| High Availability \| Server Management \| SQL \| Tiered Storage \| VMware

Breaking the Bottleneck – Solving the Storage Challenges of Next Generation Data Centers sponsored by Isilon Systems WHITE PAPER: This paper takes a holistic view of the data center, discusses each of the components individually, and explains how the crucial element of storage has lagged behind advancements in the rest of the IT infrastructure. Posted: 01 Aug 2010 \| Published: 28 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Clustering \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Spending

Uncompromising Reliability through Clustered Storage sponsored by Isilon Systems WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the limitations of traditional data protection technologies and examines Isilon IQ’s revolutionary new approach to ensuring data integrity and availability in large clustered storage environments. Posted: 26 Jul 2010 \| Published: 21 Feb 2008 TOPICS: Clustering \| Disk Backups \| Disk Storage Systems \| RAID \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

An ERP Platform Strategy Based on Industry-standard Servers sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports more than 10,000 active users. Read this paper to learn more! Posted: 02 Jun 2010 \| Published: 02 Jun 2010 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Clustering \| ERP \| High Availability \| Multi-core Processors \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine

An ERP Platform Strategy Based on Industry-standard Servers sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Many large organizations have a centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. In contrast, Intel IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports more than 10,000 active users. Read this paper to learn more! Posted: 07 Apr 2010 \| Published: 01 Mar 2010 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Clustering \| ERP \| High Availability \| Multi-core Processors \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine

NetApp Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This technical report (TR) provides guidelines and best practices for integrated architectures and implementations of Microsoft® Hyper-V with NetApp® storage solutions. Posted: 24 Mar 2010 \| Published: 01 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Clustering \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices

HP Data Protector software integration with HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN (LeftHand) solutions sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides detailed information on how to integrate HP Data Protector software with HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN Solutions. The solution is based on Data Protector Zero Downtime Backup. Posted: 24 Mar 2010 \| Published: 01 Feb 2010 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Backups \| Clustering \| Data Integration \| Downtime \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine \| VMware

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CLUSTERING DEFINITION (continued): … 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 forward the request to for handling. Having a Web farm (as such a configuration is sometimes called) allows traffic to be handled more quickly.Clustering has been available since the 1980s when it was used in DEC's VMS systems. IBM's Sysplex is a cluster …
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