Abstract :
The author considers how the idea of clustering has become new again. Clusters of NT computers and mass storage devices, connected locally and remotely into a single, highly scalable system, will quickly become the dominant model of enterprise computing. Over 80% of the multiserver systems today are connected for high availability. The demands of accessibility and reliability in today´s Internet, intranet, and enterprise server environments increasingly require failover capability, if one server goes down, the other takes over automatically
Keywords :
Internet; business communication; client-server systems; local area networks; network operating systems; Internet; NT computers; accessibility; clustering; cyber-bricks; enterprise computing; enterprise server; failover capability; highly scalable system; intranet; mass storage devices; multiserver systems; reliability; Application software; Computer architecture; Delay; Hardware; Network interfaces; Operating systems; Protocols; Software standards; Standardization; Standards development;
