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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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HP StorageWorks MSA2000 Family
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST: The new HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays offer the best price-performance features for direct attach environments, small clusters, and entry-level and mid-range SAN environments.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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When High Availability is Not Enough
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
PODCAST: 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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Scaling Storage with Clustering
sponsored by Isilon Systems
VIDEOCAST: 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: 02 Jan 2008 | Premiered: 09 Sep 2008
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Scaling Storage with Clustering
sponsored by IBM Software Group
PODCAST: 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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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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