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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  … 
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Top 3 Storage Trends for 2013
sponsored by Arrow + NetApp
EGUIDE: Check out this expert E-Guide from SearchVirtualStorage.com to explore the top 3 storage trends for 2013, and discover what's going to create the next big IT revolution. Read on for more, such as the selling points of storage clusters and what they can do for DR strategies.
Posted: 01 May 2013 | Published: 17 Jan 2013

Arrow + NetApp

Best Practices for Getting Started with Virtualization
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
EGUIDE: This expert e-guide offers 10 best practices for getting started with virtualization.
Posted: 24 Apr 2013 | Published: 24 Apr 2013

VMware, Inc.

The Business and Operational Benefits Achieved with HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details insight gathered from interviews with your peers in the IT industry about one leading vendor's virtual storage solution. Find out how HP's StoreVirtual 4000 Storage can deliver benefits such as, reduced IT downtime, increased availability and considerable time-savings.
Posted: 16 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

Clustered Storage 101
sponsored by Panasas, Inc.
EGUIDE: This E-Guide describes the ways big data is pushing traditional storage boundaries and provides insight into new tools to deal with some of the challenges that go along with this transition.
Posted: 04 Apr 2013 | Published: 04 Apr 2013

Panasas, Inc.

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

Hewlett-Packard Company and AMD

Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) has become invaluable for Oracle customers that need higher availability, better performance, scalability and resilience, lower Oracle TCO, or a flexible, low-cost foundation for a private cloud. Read this white paper to get a technical overview of the important features and functionality in Oracle RAC 11g.
Posted: 11 Feb 2013 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

Oracle Corporation

10 Essential Skills for the Next Generation of Hyper-V
sponsored by Veeam Software
WEBCAST: This webcast highlights 10 of the most important new skills for managing Hyper-V 3.0, including external live migrations, Failover Prioritization, Monitoring Replication Health, and many more.
Posted: 04 Feb 2013 | Premiered: Dec 11, 2012

Veeam Software

Oracle Solaris 11 - Innovations for Your Data Centre
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WEBCAST: In this webcast, you'll learn how Oracle Solaris can help you simplify the deployment of public, private and hybrid clouds, optimise the performance of enterprise applications, and achieve mission-critical availability and reliability.
Posted: 24 Dec 2012 | Premiered: Dec 24, 2012

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

Converged Infrastructure: Emerging Trends and Key Players in the Marketplace
sponsored by NetApp
EGUIDE: Access this expert SearchStorage.com E-Guide to gain insight into the competitive market for converged infrastructure and learn about the key players defining this market.
Posted: 13 Sep 2012 | Published: 13 Sep 2012

NetApp

SearchStorageUK Essential Guide to NAS management
sponsored by SearchStorage.co.UK
ESSENTIAL GUIDE: NAS file-level storage ranges from standalone desktop boxes to huge clusters that scale for capacity and performance and deliver billions of files from parallel file systems. Find out what you need from our top-to-bottom guide to the NAS market.
Posted: 29 Aug 2012 | Published: 28 Aug 2012

SearchStorage.co.UK

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

SUSE

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

SearchStorage.com

Logica Implements High Availability Data Center with Oracle Sun
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
VIDEOCAST: Watch this videocast to learn about an IT services company that leveraged Oracle Sun to implement a high-availability data center.
Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Premiered: Apr 6, 2012

Oracle Corporation

Operations Management with vCenter Operations
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
EGUIDE: This e-guide provides an expert analysis of VMware's new performance monitoring and capacity management tool, vCenter Operations. This expert guide covers the solution's key capabilities and essential functionalities, as well as provides real-world reactions from relevant professionals.
Posted: 29 Jan 2013 | Published: 29 Jan 2013

VMware, Inc.

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

Dell and Microsoft

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

Oracle Corporation

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

Oracle Corporation

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

Oracle Corporation

Introducing the New SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 E-Book
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
EBOOK: View this e-book to see how the new SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 combines the very best of Oracle’s high-performance technologies in a single machine – giving you an engineered system that is designed, tested and optimized to handle the most complex multi-tier workloads with unparalleled ease.
Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 11 Apr 2012

Oracle Corporation

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

Oracle Corporation

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

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

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

Caucho Technology

Introduction to Virtualisation E-Book Chapter 2: Integrating High Availability Tactics into a Virtual Infrastructure
sponsored by VMware and NetApp
EBOOK: This chapter outlines high-availability methods you can use to protect production workloads running in a virtual environment. Get advice to help you decide on the right HA strategy and obtain detailed information on working with single-site and multi-site clusters as well as guest failover clustering.
Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011

VMware and NetApp

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

Progress Software

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

Progress Software
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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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