I’m a huge fan of server virtualization for mixed purpose hosting. It’s not a perfect fit for every situation but it’s very versatile. The portability of guest operating systems adds some level of ...

I'm looking to set up a Web Farm using FreeBSD. I have decided to go with a Coyote Point Systems 350 Equalizer to load-balance the cluster, but as to the cluster itself I have no idea what to ...

IBM today introduced what is being touted as the largest preconfigured server clusters for running commercial Unix applications. IBM’s new eServer Cluster 1600 is available in pretested, fully ...

It used to be that building a usable compute cluster took plenty of money, skills, and space in the datacenter. Although creating the actual applications that run on the cluster can still be difficult ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...

Last week I used every Raspberry Pi that I had to build a six-node HexaPi computing cluster. Since then I have been asked a number of times: what is it good for? So I'm going to take a look at the ...

Many developers have turned to Docker containerization to help provide consistency in spinning up new applications in the cloud and on premises, and many applications are dependent on the ...

While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has turned on an ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) cluster in Singapore, marking it the first of such site in Asia-Pacific. The region ...