Enterprise application (EA) architects often face challenges in designing scalable applications that can accommodate a growing number of users and provide 24/7 availability. In this article, I'll ...

Software plans for making high-end computing jobs less susceptible to system crashes are ratcheting ahead. The niche has some analysts making large growth predictions. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

Question: I'm to the point in our organization that load balancing across multiple servers is really becoming necessary. Making the transition from standalone servers to server clusters is a daunting ...

We want to cluster two of our Red Hat AS 2.1 Web servers and configure the disk array so it can be shared between the servers (so both can see the same drives at the same time). Where can we get more ...

Websites crash for numerous reasons, but you can boil it down to one thing: Dependence. For us, dependence is a significant cause of tension and anxiety. Think about it: If you start craving something ...

Last month I attended a session on Failover Clustering at the SQL PASS Summit Conference and it was very enlightening. I have not done too much with SQL Server Failover Clustering except in test mode ...