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Dell has strengthened its relationship with Oracle to help continue its move into the enterprise datacentre with clustered Intel servers running on Linux.
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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.
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.
When designing a data centre, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.
Hewlett-Packard revamped its midrange storage systems last week and introduced a framework for future storage technology.
Infiniband, the new storage/server interconnect, has been snubbed by Intel and Microsoft -- but that's no reason to count it out.
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