One of the main advantages of operating in a cluster environment is that you can minimize your downtime. If you have all of your information stored on one server and that server goes down then your entire operation could be halted. With a cluster server, however, you can often move your information to another computer [...]
In the early days of computing, even before home computing, the U.S. government had a supercomputer called Cray. We’ve come a long way since then.
As more and more people and businesses began to acquire the technology to run software and store data at their locations the demand for computing rose. And it rose sharply. By [...]
As it relates to server technology, a cluster refers to two or more computers working cohesively to deliver a higher level of scalability and reliability than can be achieved with a single machine. Cluster servers are primarily used to help prevent three types of failure:
1.) Application and service failures that impact software applications and [...]
Cloud computing is a term that gets thrown around quite a bit these days, so I thought I’d clarify the term just a little bit in regards to what most people mean by it. Cloud computing, as it is commonly used, means that instead of using one server and upgrading and adding them manually you [...]
