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Data Center High Availability Clusters Design Guide

whitepaper HA clusters are mainly used for e-mail and database servers, and for file sharing. Clusters define a collection of servers that operate as if they were a single machine. This paper describes how to design and deploy High Availability (HA) clusters...

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

Ice Cream Shops Serve Up Super Server Reliability With One Directory "Flavor"

whitepaper Looking to streamline its IT infrastructure, reduce server maintenance costs, and simplify remote access to the corporate network, Friendly's phased out its Novell NetWare - based file and print server computers.

Tags: netware

[11 May 2008]

FileWall: A Firewall for Network File Systems

whitepaper Therefore, implementing simple context-aware access policies requires modifications to file servers and/or clients, which is impractical. Access control in network file systems relies on primitive mechanisms like Access Control Lists and permission...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Distributed File System: A Logical View of Physical Storage

whitepaper Dfs makes it possible to build a single, hierarchical view of multiple file servers and file server shares on your network. File systems provide uniform named access to collections of sectors on disks while Dfs provides a uniform naming convention...

Tags: windows nt - 2000 - 2003, file, shares, collections

[10 Apr 2008]

Detroit Free Press

whitepaper The Detroit Free Press needed to strengthen IT infrastructure by replacing unstable notebook computers, standardizing a data center to manage departmental needs, and implementing a storage and backup solution to handle massive file archives.

Tags: data center, file, press, dell

[10 Apr 2008]

XOsoft's WANSync Business Continuity Platform Helps Richard Fleischman & Associates Inc. Keep Systems Availability High During East Coast Blackout

whitepaper RFA employs the synchronization and continuous real-time replication capabilities provided by WANSync File and WANSync Exchange for protection of numerous clients' file servers and Exchange mail servers.

Tags: disaster recovery, exchange, file, wansync

[10 Apr 2008]

Efficient File Management Helps Perth and Kinross Council Deliver Services Proactively

whitepaper Deploying the new file server solution and using the Intelligent File Storage capabilities of Windows Server 2003 enabled the council to simplify file server management, reduce IT operations costs, and help both end users and the IT support staff...

Tags: directory services, end users, file, council

[10 Apr 2008]

Florida Law Firm Ensures Its Data Is Available, Even if a Hurricane Strikes

whitepaper He then purchased XOsoft's WANSync and WANSyncHA for his Exchange, SQL, and file servers. The director of IT decided to set up a secondary data center in Chicago, IL (out of the path of any potential hurricanes), which would be linked to the...

Tags: infrastructure management, florida, wide area network, global crossing

[10 Apr 2008]

Small IT Solutions Shop Offers Clients Big Security, Improves Reliability 100%

whitepaper However, it was less effective for demonstrating small office LAN features, such as local logon and file/print sharing - and this was a challenge the team was eager to address. The company deployed Windows Server 2008, Standard on two servers.

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[02 Apr 2008]

Supporting Server Consolidation Takes More Than WAFS

whitepaper However, the initial implementations of server consolidation demonstrated that applications such as Microsoft Office that rely on the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol perform poorly in this type of environment.

Tags: data center

[28 Mar 2008]

Bank Improves Network Management and Security With New Solution

whitepaper Two 2-node clusters will be installed to provide users with database and file and print services. With support from Microsoft Services and primesphere, Banque de Luxembourg chose to replace its 13 Novell-based servers with 8 servers running the...

Tags: infrastructure management

[23 Mar 2008]

Active Storage Processing in a Parallel File System

whitepaper This paper has extended and deployed this idea in context of storage servers of a parallel file system, where substantial performance benefits can be realized by eliminating the overhead of data movement across the network.

Tags: parallel processing

[22 Mar 2008]

Leading California Flower Grower Virtualizes Entire Environment

whitepaper He was seeking a scalable, reliable storage device that could handle both file and application storage for the right price. User sessions hung frequently, resulting in slowdowns for everyone connected to the hung servers and reduced productivity...

Tags: application servers

[04 Mar 2008]

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 With the HP Enterprise Virtual Array and ProLiant Storage Server iSCSI Feature Pack Gateway Edition

whitepaper Host access may be application servers such as file and print, Exchange Server, etc. The iSCSI Feature Pack enables placement of Exchange files (typically database files and transaction log files) as well as other files (such as network attached...

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

Microsoft IT Enhances Operations With Windows Server 2003 R2 Upgrade

whitepaper Microsoft's IT group (Microsoft IT) deployed Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 to take advantage of several new features, including: File Server Resource Manager, a centralized tool for managing file servers; Distributed File System, to reduce WAN...

Tags: wide area networks (wan)

[10 Jan 2008]

Optimized Large File Access in Storage Clusters Using Common TCP/IP-Based File Transfer Protocols

whitepaper Out of the current test results, the usability of an IP based access network between user terminals and central file cluster servers is demonstrated. All tests were performed on a scaled setup, including clients, file servers, storage controllers...

Tags: tcp - ip

[26 Dec 2007]

TCP-PARIS: A Parallel Download Protocol for Replicas

whitepaper Parallel download protocols have the potential to reduce file download time and to achieve a server-side load balancing in replica systems, such as peer-to-peer networks, content distribution networks and mirrored servers, by simultaneously...

Tags: tcp - ip

[19 Dec 2007]

Webcast: File System Replication for Data Protection Solutions

whitepaper By deploying new generation NAS file servers with built-in replication functions, you can: View this on-demand TechRepublic Webcast, featuring Paul Speciale, Vice President, Product Management, agámi Systems Inc.and James Hilliard, TechRepublic...

Tags: disaster, techrepublic, file, replication

[12 Dec 2007]

Army Corps of Engineers Uses iSCSI SAN to Meet Critical Storage Challenges

whitepaper Replace obsolete file and print servers Despite having owned a fibre channel Storage Area Network (SAN) for six years, the Huntington District Army Corps of Engineers was still using Direct Attached Storage (DAS) for the bulk of their data, which...

Tags: back-up, files, channel, san

[29 Nov 2007]

Cisco Network Enables City of Monterey to Cost-Effectively Reach Out to Citizens in New Ways

whitepaper The company wanted to reduce the number of file servers on their network because the speed of connecting the assets scattered across the city is so much greater. Cisco Systems along with City of Monterey in California has enhanced citizen services...

Tags: network design

[16 Nov 2007]

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