Global Compute Grid Adoption Is Nearly Flat

Awareness Grows, But It Doesn't Consistently Translate To Interest

by Frank E. Gillett, October 13, 2006

Unlike server virtualization, which hit 92% awareness and 40% adoption in North American enterprises, compute grids have achieved 81% awareness and only 8% adoption. European enterprise awareness and adoption is similar to North America's, while Asia . . .

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Ensuring Continuous Database Availability

High Availability And Disaster Recovery Should Be Part Of DBMS Strategy

by Noel Yuhanna, October 2, 2006

Although database management system (DBMS) and hardware technology has improved during the past decade, it still does not deliver continuous 24x7 availability for enterprise databases. A server can fail, data become corrupted, or a network may go down. . . .

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Six Database Initiatives That Can Save Money

by Noel Yuhanna, September 7, 2006

As more databases are deployed to support growing business requirements, manageability and complexity not only increase, but so do IT costs. Enterprises can save money through automation, open source, standardization, outsourcing, consolidation, and utilizing . . .

Windows On IBM System i — Short-List It?

When A Hybrid Systems Architecture Can Make Sense

by Brad Day, September 1, 2006

Many IT managers and operational staff in small and medium-sized businesses have been forced to deploy two distinct server environments — one for mission-critical applications and another for standard infrastructure software like Microsoft Exchange. System . . .

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Oracle RAC Gains Momentum

Reliability And Cluster Of Low-Cost Servers Are The Key Reasons For Growth

by Noel Yuhanna, September 15, 2005

In the past year, Forrester has interviewed 35 Oracle customers using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) to find out about their implementation. Most customers stated that RAC met or exceeded their high-availability requirements to support mission-critical . . .

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Failover Clustering Dominates High Availability for DBMSes, RAC Remains Superior

by Noel Yuhanna, December 23, 2003

If a database application requires HA solution, then failover clustering can improve availability, especially for hardware-related outages. Always start with two nodes in a cluster to ensure stability before adding more nodes.

Changing Economics Put Data Warehousing on ICE — Integrated Cluster Environment

by Lou Agosta, August 8, 2003

Data warehousing clients should look to open source for savings in acquisition and lifetime support costs, but should not neglect the relentless march of improved hardware performance as a source of savings of even greater current significance.

Data Warehouse Practitioners Pace Adoption of Clustering and MPP Databases

by Lou Agosta, June 3, 2003

A vast majority of our data warehousing respondents do not operate a clustered or shared nothing (MPP) architecture at all (56%). But among those who do so, Oracle has 20%, DB2 has 13% and Teradata 7%, regardless of operating system and platform.

SGI Advances Future of High-Performance Linux Systems

February 4, 2003

Users now have a cluster alternative to conventional Beowulf clusters, where the lack of a single administrative image makes it difficult to functionally decompose large jobs.

Data Warehousing Performance: Hardware

by Lou Agosta, October 16, 2002

Even with the significant improvements in chip computing technology occurring today, special-purpose data warehouse hardware will still be needed to manage the complexity and provide the performance demanded by end-user firms for the foreseeable future.

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Oracle Open Sources Cluster File System — Implications for Enterprise Linux

by Stacey Quandt, Terilyn Palanca, September 27, 2002

Oracle's decision to open source its cluster file system under the GNU General Public License will help customers simplify the management of a clustered database system on Linux.

SGI to Advance Scalable Linux Cluster With NUMAflex Architecture

by Stacey Quandt, September 18, 2002

Users should evaluate an SGI 64-way in the context of other Linux cluster road maps from a variety of vendors and use this information to negotiate pricing.

Sun Cluster Utilization — Defining and Deploying for Cluster-Aware Applications

by Brad Day, September 13, 2002

System architects designing a SunPlex cluster deployment for Oracle 9i RAC should consider the specific deployment guidelines across a variety of hardware components to best optimize database applications as a cluster-aware software solution.

DB2 v 8.1 Multi-Dimensional Clustering Has Nothing to Do With Cubes

by Keith Gile, August 27, 2002

Train DBAs well on multi-dimensional clustering and to what the implications will be to all operational and decision support applications before implementing MDC on a production basis.

Sun's Cluster 3.0 — Trends, Traction, Next Take

by Brad Day, August 14, 2002

Giga projects the new higher growth for the adoption of Sun Cluster 3.0 will be biased toward pushing the highest levels of availability to the business logic application server and/or multitier application suites.

Trends in Unix Clusters — Now, Next and IBM as One Example

by Brad Day, August 6, 2002

Clustered server architectures will continue to provide the benefits of both high availability as well as performance scalability, but will play a new and increasing role as a server virtualization host.

Top500 Supercomputer List — Implications for AMD and Intel-Based Linux Clusters

by Stacey Quandt, June 28, 2002

While the Hewlett-Packard Superdome and AlphaServer, IBM SP and Sun Microsystems 15K systems continue to dominate the Top500 supercomputing list, there is also an increase in the number of Linux clusters.

Cray and Dell Agreement Expands Market Opportunity for High-Performance Clusters and Services

by Stacey Quandt, February 25, 2002

While enabling Cray to sell Dell Linux-based systems alongside its existing HPC products and solutions, the agreement gives Dell access to a new class of customers within government, aerospace, life sciences, oil and gas and automotive.

TruCluster vs. Sun Cluster — Compaq Still Rules

by Brad Day, February 21, 2002

While Sun Cluster 3.0 has made significant strides, Compaq TruCluster Server software (Version 5.1) with SSI capabilities still rules in meeting the more demanding high-availability business and technology requirements of the CTO.

The Difference Between Clustered and Parallel Technologies and Why It s Important

by Lou Agosta, February 8, 2002

More clients than ever before are now able to make use of standard single image symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) approaches to data warehousing infrastructure. However, special cases will still exist at the high end.

Clusters Defined: Comparing Single-System and Multisystem Image Clusters

by Brad Day, December 27, 2001

It is important to understand that, with the exception of Windows 2000 DataCenter, the most advanced cluster technologies can be configured to support both multisystem and single-system image cluster environments.

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IBM GPFS for Red Hat 7.1 Offers Proprietary Path to Linux Clusters

by Stacey Quandt, July 3, 2001

IBM needs Red Hat to support Linux standards, specifically The Linux Standard Base, in order to encourage ISVs to port to a Linux-written specification and drive the growth of the overall Linux market.

IBM Ports Blue Hammer to Linux: Impacts Clustering Technology

by Stacey Quandt, March 21, 2001

There are limitations to IBM's Blue Hammer for Linux given the absence of SP switch technology, AIX HACMP cluster support and system partitioning. With Blue Hammer available on Linux and AIX, customers need to understand the criteria for deployment.