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: December 17, 2008 | Published: December 17, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Business Continuity Planning | Business Continuity Planning Software | Cache | Clustering | Continuous Data Protection | Grid Computing | Oracle (Product) | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | VM

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes an implementation of the Sun Lustre™ file system as a scalable storage cluster using Sun Fire™ servers, high speed/low latency InfiniBand interconnects, and additional networking and storage devices.
Posted: December 12, 2008 | Published: December 12, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Electronic Components | High Performance Computing | Metadata | RAID | SAN | Storage Devices

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes a proof of concept study, investigating the feasibility of implementing BoIB using Sun x64 servers, Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition, and Mellanox ConnectX technology.
Posted: December 12, 2008 | Published: December 12, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Configuration Management | File Sharing Protocols | File Transfer Protocols | High Performance Computing | Linux | Server Appliances

WHITE PAPER - This paper addresses the primary ways MySQL installations can scale to meet increasing user demands, while still providing the flexibility and ease of use that single installations offer.
Posted: December 12, 2008 | Published: December 12, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Database Administrators | Database Architectures | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | MySQL | Operating Systems | Scalability Testing

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: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Clustering | DHCP | High Availability | Network Configuration Management | SMBs | VLAN | Windows Server Software

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: December 9, 2008 | Published: December 9, 2008


Topics:  Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Databases | High Availability | LAN | NAS | Oracle (Product) | SAN | Scalability Testing | Storage Management

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: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Linux | Oracle (Product) | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This chapter from Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) contains information to guide administrators and IT managers in the selection and installation of servers, systems and subsystems.
Posted: November 12, 2008 | Published: November 12, 2008


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Blade Servers | Clustering | Data Centers | Grid Computing | Scalability Testing | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This document looks at how a virtual tape library utilizing a clustered gateway and data de-duplication can assist data centers that face such challenges, and such devices provides data center managers faster backups and recoveries.
Posted: November 10, 2008 | Published: November 10, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Security | Enterprise | Server Hardware | Storage Management | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This white paper outlines key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy--a ‘must have' capability for applications to operate with extreme and predictable performance and scalability.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Clustering | CORBA | Enterprise Resource Management | Hardware | Java | Linux | UNIX | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - In this paper, we present a `real-time´ DBMS suitable for markets with extremely low latency or `real-time´ requirements.
Posted: October 22, 2008 | Published: October 22, 2008


Topics:  Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Databases | Hardware | MySQL | Open Source | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - In this document, Univa UD outlines a service offering for custom-tuning a Grid Engine installation to optimize performance.
Posted: October 20, 2008 | Published: October 18, 2008


Topics:  Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Configuration Management | Hardware | Operating Systems | Processor Architectures | ROI | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This report explores how scale-out ExaStore clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS.
Posted: October 15, 2008 | Published: October 15, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Centers | Data Management | LAN | NAS | RAID | SAN | Security

WHITE PAPER - Read how ASE Cluster Edition uses a shared-disk architecture designed to support up to 32 nodes, each running one or more ASE server instances that simultaneously access a Storage Area Network.
Posted: October 13, 2008 | Published: October 13, 2008


Topics:  Cache | Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Data Centers | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Databases

WHITE PAPER - The dynamic data center is within reach today, but how it is achieved and how well it performs can vary widely from among the many approaches being offered. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and how to get there.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software