Supercomputing specialist SGI has become Microsoft's latest partner, signing up to support a version of Windows that can farm out computing jobs to a cluster of lower-end servers.
Dell Computer is adding more hardware to its high-performance clusters, aiming to up the number of computers that share heavyweight computing jobs.
IBM will soon give supercomputing aficionados a glimpse of an Opteron chip-based system that is geared for high-performance tasks.
Whether you're providing Web services to your company or customers, hosting critical applications and data, or building a bulletproof e-mail infrastructure, load balancing and cluster services are key tools for providing reliability and fault tolerance. Take a look at Microsoft's offering.
To move network services from one server to another, you don't have to change all your logon scripts and local systems. Just use the Windows 2000 Cluster Service to create virtual servers.
With a growing interest in the productivity benefits, clustering is on the agenda for a number of CIOs and IT managers. ZDNet Australia takes a look at the issues.
Whether you're providing Web services to your company or customers, hosting critical applications and data, or building a bulletproof e-mail infrastructure, load balancing and cluster services are key tools for providing reliability and fault tolerance. Take a look at Microsoft's offering.
To move network services from one server to another, you don't have to change all your logon scripts and local systems. Just use the Windows 2000 Cluster Service to create virtual servers.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
While Windows is ubiquitous on the desktop and well represented in the server racks, until recently it has been nearly absent from the world's largest supercomputers.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
Service Pack 1 (SP1) reinstates a lot of the functionality that Microsoft left out in order to get Exchange Server 2007 out of the door last year.
Windows Server 2008 is easier to install and manage than previous versions, and has many new and improved features that should encourage organisations to upgrade.
Office 2008 for Mac may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less expensive alternatives.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 makes prettier presentations, so an upgrade may be in order if your work is particularly image-focused and you don't mind relearning the application. If PowerPoint 2003 serves you well, however, it offers most of the same features, albeit with flatter-looking graphics.
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