Load Balancing
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Dell PowerEdge R710
Reviews Dell continues to chip away at HP's dominance of the industry-standard server market, and the 2U PowerEdge R710 is an excellent choice, although its internal storage capacity is limited.
Tags: Motherboard, SD card, Storage, Dell PowerEdge, HP Compaq ProLiant, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Sun Fire, disk, Dell Computer Corp.
Linksys One NSS4100
Reviews A well-built storage appliance with good cross-platform file sharing facilities, the NSS4100 works best when deployed in Linksys One environments.
Tags: Authentication, Linksys Inc., data backup, Power Supply, USB, Data Backup Facility, NAS, NSS4100, Network Attachment, Server
Use dual NICs to maximize network throughput
Insight If you're looking for a cost-effective means of improving your network's performance and fault tolerance, consider using dual NICs in your servers.
Amazon adds Windows to its cloud
News Amazon has taken its Elastic Compute Cloud service out of beta status and added Windows to Linux and Solaris on its list of supported operating systems.
Tags: Web services, Autodesk Inc., SLA, Server, Amazon.com Inc., load balancing, Eli Lilly & Co., data-processing, management console, monitoring
Facebook's load balancing act by the numbers
News Some of Facebook's recent feature launches have brought in a crazy amount of traffic. How does the site balance it?
Tags: Web sites, Web services, CNN, load balancing, social networking, Facebook, San Jose, Velocity, data center, California
Amazon offers more cloud control
News Company's cloud-computing arm unveils the public beta for three features to help users monitor cloud resources, adjust capacity and balance traffic loads.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web Service, On-demand, Europe, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., public beta, blog, S3 Inc.
SAP and IBM offer joint cloud migration
News The two companies demonstrated a new tool at CeBIT 2009, based on IBM's Power 6 systems that offers live migration via cloud computing.
Tags: Cloud computing, IBM Corp., SAP AG, Migration, European Union, Europe, Cloud computing, Environment, Server, CeBit
Amazon spreading its wings in the cloud
News Amazon Web Services has been offering on-demand computing and storage capacity through its Elastic Cloud Compute and Simple Storage Service. Now the company wants to make these easier for businesses to use.
Tags: Cloud computing, E-commerce, E-business, Database, Web Service, Europe, Service, Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc.
VMware embraces the cloud with vSphere
Techguide VMware has modified its product portfolio to enhance its virtualization platform's capabilities and to attempt to tap into the small business market.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data backup, disaster recovery, Servers, Core, Virtual Machine, Storage, Small Business, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, VMWare ESX
10 iptables rules to help secure your Linux box
Techguide Mastering iptables could take a while, but if you have a few rules to cover the basic security needs, you'll be well on your way to protecting your Linux system.
Tags: Linux, Network security, Security Management, Packet, TCP, Security, Rule, SSH, IP, Linux Server
F5 Networks to introduce next-gen traffic manager
News F5 Networks will announce its new switch next week, part of efforts to broaden its reach in the market.
Tags: Routing/switching
Disable round robin DNS resolution in Windows Server 2003
Techguide You may be accustomed to striking a balance in your Windows Server 2003 using round robin, but sometimes you might want to concentrate all that load on one IP address. Here's how to disable round robin and free up the other server addresses at the same time.
EMC upgrades Invista for NAS virtualization
News EMC, which owns virtualization software company VMware, has launched the latest version of its Invista virtualization product for networked storage.
Tags: Storage software
Dell steps into networking niche
News Branching out its product line, the PC maker will begin selling network switches to small- and medium-sized businesses next month.
Upscale Windows 2000 heads to testers
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