Clustering White Papers

WHITE PAPER: If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the technical underpinnings of Resin 4.0's sophisticated clustering capabilities that provide reliable and fast distributed sessions, distributed object caching, and cloud-wide application deployment all while adding and removing application server instances at will during runtime.

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 | Published: 17 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper helps us to understand the importance of desktop search tools fit in the universe of Microsoft search tools.

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how to run sophisticated or highly-available applications in virtualized environments by creating a software-based virtualization infrastructure that offers high availability and grid readiness.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This solutions guide details the four available networking configurations, and the advantages and disadvantages of each with an emphasis on typical Dell system configuration and the hardware offerings.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) allows Oracle Database to run any packaged or custom application, unchanged across a set of clustered events.

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discovers how organization can increase operational efficiency while cutting costs with Oracle Unbreakable Linux, a support program that delivers enterprise-quality support for Linux at a lower cost.

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Published: 12 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overall approach to tuning I/O performance and also provides specific guidelines for using the storage array tuning controls.

Posted: 17 Sep 2008 | Published: 16 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores a completely new approach to availability for virtual machines-an approach recognized with the Best of VMworld 2007 - New Technology award.

Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Published: 08 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: As new technologies become more widely adopted, your role as a database administrator (DBA) will change. This paper outlines the common challenges you face, the critical tasks you perform, and examines the trends will impact your role as a DBA.

Posted: 23 Jun 2008 | Published: 23 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: Learn how DB2 can help you meet the demands of business intelligence by reducing query response time from hours to seconds, supporting real time data warehousing, and optimizing your storage while lowering operating costs.

Posted: 28 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

WHITE PAPER: Fault Tolerant servers are the choice for continuous availability on Windows. Download this white paper to learn why clustering and redundancy might not be enough and how Fault Tolerant servers can help provide the continuous availability IT shops need.

Posted: 01 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Feb 2007

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Exchange availability is critical for business operations. Learn how clustering on the Exchange Server is the most cost effective and complete solution for Exchange Server backups.

Posted: 16 Mar 2007 | Published: 16 Mar 2007

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Dell IT made the transition from proprietary Unix-based servers to running mission critical supply chain management applications on standards-based servers to avoid significant expenditures, increase server uptime, and improve scalability.

Posted: 09 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

WHITE PAPER: Best practices on the installation and configuration of Oracle Enterprise Manager and Dell OpenManage, including detailed instructions on how to monitor and manage alerts coming from the servers.

Posted: 09 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

WHITE PAPER: PSI sought a zero-downtime machine with the muscle to run a few very resource-intensive database applications.

Posted: 16 Feb 2007 | Published: 01 Feb 2007

WHITE PAPER: Managing a high volume of servers is difficult and time consuming. Imagine scaling as fast as you need without expensive re-architecting. Discover a next-level solution that enables large-scale shared data clusters via an integrated SAN and...

Posted: 16 Jan 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2006

WHITE PAPER: High application availability can be achieved through the use of larger clusters; an approach that also results in increased server utilization and reduces costs. Learn about advanced cluster configurations that can improve application availability.

Posted: 05 Dec 2006 | Published: 01 Aug 2004

WHITE PAPER: In today's "do more with less" computing environment, IT managers must weigh the advantages of proven fault-tolerant capabilities against the need to contain costs. Discover a cost-effective solution for the most critical business applications.

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 | Published: 01 Jul 2006