Microsoft Cluster Service Or Network Load Balancing?
News The first of my recent articles on Windows clustering prompted a member to ask about the differences between the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) and Microsoft's other clustering technology, network load balancing (NLB).
[November 7, 2002, 15:28]
Web Hosting Company Increases Server Capacity Six-Fold, Reduces Costs And Downtime
White Papers HostMySite.com utilized the Storage Area Network (SAN) storage solution and network load balancing of Internet Information Services 7.0 and Windows Server 2008 to centralize customer content. With increased demands on its Web hosting infrastructure...
[March 23, 2008, 23:00]
TeleWest To Move To Zeus
News It is also capitalising on fears of the insecurity of Microsoft's IIS server to sell Zeus as a load balancing firewall for IIS server farms. Load balancing has been brought out as an add-on to Zeus 4.0, letting them act as a firewall, repelling DOS...
[November 14, 2001, 14:29]
Betfair's Australian Launch Is A Winner
News Balancing the load One of the products highlighted by Moss was the Citrix Netscaler, which is a load balancing appliance that is capable of managing network traffic on the application layer. When asked about downtime, Moss said it was "not tolerated".
[September 20, 2006, 15:50]
Red Hat: Walking The Linux Tightrope
News Making money from open source is a balancing act. As the largest stand-alone Linux distribution, Red Hat has had to perfect this balancing act the hard way. We said: "There is no way we can do the consumer business -- answering my Mom's phone calls...
[August 19, 2004, 17:42]
Internet Downtime Still Up There
Blog Paul Di Leo, boss of Zeus, speaking on the panel, said that his company provides a new form of load balancing that should help the kind of endemic downtime described by Broadhead. The penultimate panel debate at NetEvents Geneva on Friday was based...
[February 23, 2007, 13:35]
Sun Seeks To Insulate Large Servers From Crashes
News One of the key features, according to Keller, is that administrators can adjust the load balancing features separately. By the clock, that limits downtime to about five minutes a year. Sun Microsystems will try to better insulate large customers...
[August 29, 2003, 15:55]
Get Your Hands Off Our Grids
Leader But if you need load balancing and resilience then you're talking clusters. Rather, grid should mean making better use of what you have; clawing back those spare processor cycles and dark hours of downtime.
[May 20, 2005, 12:30]
IBM Extends WebSphere's Back-end Reach
News The new product includes an administration console to better visualise servers in a data centre, to help in balancing the computing load across different machines. IBM expects the software to appeal mainly to companies with complex computing...
[June 24, 2004, 8:50]
