New RFS6000 Solution Mobilizes Mid-Sized Enterprises at a Fraction of the Cost of Wired Equivalents
SAN JOSE, Calif. – 12 March 2008 – The Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced its Motorola RFS6000, the latest addition to a family of high-performance multi-core processor-based wireless LAN (WLAN) switches, targeted at mid-sized enterprises. The RFS6000 supports an all-wireless enterprise vision, enabling businesses to build an enterprise WLAN that serves the entire organization from workers in corporate headquarters to manufacturing and distribution plants to remote branch offices.
With the industry’s leading …

The Linux-HA (High-Availability Linux) project provides a high-availability (clustering) solution for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X which promotes reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).
The project’s main software product is Heartbeat, a GPL-licensed portable cluster management program for high-availability clustering. Its most important features are:

no fixed maximum number of nodes - Heartbeat can be used to build large clusters as well as very simple ones
resource monitoring: resources can be automatically restarted or moved to another node on failure
fencing mechanism to remove failed nodes from the cluster
sophisticated policy-based resource management, …

Raleigh NC – February 14, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the global availability of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, a next-generation, enterprise-class, open source solution for organizations seeking to enhance business performance by integrating people, partners, information, applications, business services and processes in the value chain. The solution provides Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), application and business-process integration capabilities in a single, easy-to-consume enterprise distribution. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is the first comprehensive open source SOA product offering, …

High availability is a system design protocol and associated implementation that ensures a certain absolute degree of operational continuity during a given measurement period.
Availability refers to the ability of the user community to access the system, whether to submit new work, update or alter existing work, or collect the results of previous work. If a user cannot access the system, it is said to be unavailable. Generally, the term downtime is used to refer to periods when a system is unavailable.
Planned and unplanned downtime
A distinction needs to be made between …

Xserve is the name of Apple Computer’s Macintosh 1U rackmount line of server computers.
While Apple’s first foray into the server market in 1997 was a spectacular failure by way of Network Servers that ran AIX 4, the introduction of OS X in 2000 and the later rollout of the G5 PowerPC processor from IBM present strong arguments for its adoption now.
Not known for being a server-side company, Apple representatives confirmed that the company took its efforts to penetrate the enterprise market very seriously and spoke to hundreds of companies during …

Load balancing is the even distribution of computer processing and communication activities so that a server is not overwhelmed. Load balancing is especially important for networks where it is difficult to predict the number of requests that will be issued to a server.
Busy Web sites typically employ two or more Web servers in a load-balancing scheme. If one server starts to get swamped, requests are forwarded to another server with more capacity. Load balancing is therefore a service that is employed on more sophisticated site deployments.
Most service providers that offer …

Just like the conductor in a musical orchestra, a Server (in information technology parlance) refers to a mother computer or master software that intelligently and seamlessly provides a host of services by controlling the access to data or physical resources residing in it to other programs / computers / network of computers, which connect to the server.
A server is usually used in situations involving massive volumes of processes / requests that have to be serviced. It is also used in situations requiring huge, centralized storage of relevant software / proprietary …