Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Management in a Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers This paper presents a novel architecture that leverages "Publish-subscribe" principles for enabling scalable and fault-tolerant management of a set of distributed entities. With the emergence of Service-based architectures, management of an...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Fault Tolerance Management for a Hierarchical GridRPC Middleware
White Papers This paper aims at adapting to these novelties by providing the first implementation and evaluation in a grid system of the optimal fault detector, a novel and simple checkpoint API allowing to manage both service provided checkpoint and automatic...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Fault-tolerant systems get cheaper
News For years, specialist "fault-tolerant" server makers have doubled up hardware to make servers more reliable. On 10 March, veteran fault-tolerant vendor Stratus will launch a rack-mounted, entry-level, fault-tolerant Intel server.
[March 4, 2003, 8:49]
Red Hat certified on NEC's fault-tolerant servers
News NEC has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for use on its Express5800/320Ma server, a fault-tolerant machine that uses backup components to protect against hardware failures. It's the first time the software has been certified on the server...
[August 16, 2006, 16:40]
Bubbleboy virus is Microsoft's fault - Sophos
News But it is not Microsoft's fault that someone chose to write this virus. Shoddy work is responsible for the dangers presented by the new Bubbleboy virus, according to anti-virus company Sophos, which lays the blame at Microsoft's door.
[November 10, 1999, 13:46]
HP-UX 11i System Fault Management
White Papers This paper describes the key features of System Fault Management (SFM) and its use in the manageability domain. Enterprise servers have a growing demand for strong fault management capabilities to meet business needs for stringent and time...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
NEC and Stratus launch quad-core fault tolerance
News Stratus is labelling its latest server, the ftServer 6200, as "the most powerful Intel processor-based, fault-tolerant server for Windows or Linux" enterprise systems. The two companies are pooling their respective technologies, with NEC supplying...
[March 26, 2007, 17:04]
Dell extends warranties after GPU fault
News Dell has added an extra year's warranty to an extensive range of its laptops, following the discovery of a fault in the Nvidia graphics-processing units in some of those machines. Nvidia revealed the fault — "arising from a weak die/packaging...
[August 19, 2008, 16:44]
San Diego Emergency Dispatch System Depends on Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Stratus Fault-Tolerant Servers
White Papers When San Diego Fire and Life Safety Services (SDFLSS) needed a new platform for its life-critical Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, it turned to Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Stratus's fault-tolerant ftServer 5200.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Stratus launches first fault-tolerant dual-core servers
News Fault-tolerant system supplier Stratus Technologies launched its first system using dual-core processors on Tuesday, claiming it will offer 25 percent performance improvements over its current line. The server is available with a fault-tolerant...
[January 24, 2006, 14:00]
Data Mining Techniques for Building Fault-Proneness Models in Telecom Java Software
White Papers This paper describes a study performed in an industrial setting that attempts to build predictive models to identify parts of a Java system with a high probability of fault. The main focus of this paper is two-fold: use and compare many data mining...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Ensuring Data Security & Consistency in FTIMA - A Fault Tolerant Infrastructure for Mobile Agents
White Papers Existing Fault Tolerance Infrastructure for Mobile Agents (FTIMA) provides a fault tolerant behavior in distributed transactions and uses multi-agent system for distributed transaction and processing.
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Got Predictability?: Experiences With Fault-Tolerant Middleware
White Papers A particular category of COTS systems, Fault-Tolerant (FT) middleware, is used in critical enterprise and embedded applications where predictability is of paramount importance. Each team, starting from a common three-tier architecture...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Provision of Fault Tolerance With Grid-Enabled and SLA-Aware Resource Management Systems
White Papers This paper presents the EU-funded project HPC4U (Highly Predictable Clusters for Internet Grids), which aims at realizing such an RMS by means of SLA-negotiation and SLA-aware scheduling, and application-transparent fault tolerance.
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Michael Dell: Exploding batteries are Sony's fault
Talkback This seems as though Dell is trying to save as much face as they possibly can out of this, does that mean it is partly Dell's fault or is it just Sony's. Dont be an idiot. I'd probably opt for Sony especially seeing as the one big product Sony have...
[September 15, 2006, 16:39]
NEC High-Availability Fault Tolerant-Virtual Server Solution
White Papers This paper introduces a high availability Fault Tolerant-Virtual Server (FT-VS) solution from NEC Solutions America for IT organizations that want to use virtual machine technologies, but are concerned with servers failing.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Stratus adds Nehalem to fault-tolerant servers
News The fault-tolerant systems can offer high availability by running a pair of servers whose CPU, memory and hard disk are in permanent synchronisation. Stratus has upgraded its ftServer range of high-availability servers with the addition of Intel's...
[August 25, 2009, 9:00]
Google denies fault over Mail problems
Talkback Closing channels that allow SPAM to pass through is said to be the fault, so why not be open about this.You can deal with problems but not lack of knowledge, particularly in business! Mail in and out, world- wide is a problem.
[April 3, 2006, 12:18]
A Middleware for Constructing Highly Available, Fault Tolerant, and Attack Tolerant Services
White Papers This paper describes the design of a middleware that provides support for constructing highly available, secure, fault-tolerant, and attack-tolerant services. The central component of this middleware is a group communication service that comprises...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Create high-availability, fault-tolerant messaging architectures with Exchange 2003 clustering
White Papers Learn how you can use clustering in Exchange 2003 to create high-availability, fault-tolerant messaging architectures. This sample chapter, taken from Sams' Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Delta Guide explores some of the new clustering features and...
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]



