Computer Sciences Corporation migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite Server for unified management and administration across the Nordics
Raleigh NC – February 20, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Nordic operations of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a leading global information technology (IT) services company, has standardized its mid-range Nordic Linux IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in response to an increasing demand for hosted …

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 …

Virtual Private Networks form a major part of many organizations’ network infrastructure. They are often used as a vehicle to serve sensitive information to remote offices and workers. Typically VPN’s are created point-to-point making it difficult to add any resilience or more bandwidth. Introducing our products to this infrastructure makes this possible, whether you are implementing new or expanding existing VPN infrastructure.
Drawbacks of existing technology:
Single Point of Failure
Traditional VPN’s both client and site-to-site are based upon a single Internet link. Should this link fail, organizations invariably have no fall-back plan, …