Servers

Load balancing is a technique that ensures an organization's server does not get overloaded with traffic. With load balancing measures in place, workloads and traffic requests are distributed across server resources to provide higher resilience and availability. In the earliest days of the Internet, it became painfully obvious that a single application on a single server couldn't handle high-traffic situations. Concurrent server requests from large...

Most IT functions depend on the health and infrastructure of servers, making proper server management an essential task for data center administrators. Server management is a complex process, especially with the growth of cloud computing. System administrators must be able to continuously manage physical server hardware, virtual machines and a variety of application and database servers simultaneously.  In this article, we'll cover some of the...

When you look at the X86 virtualization market the two big players are Microsoft and VMware. According to Gartner, the market leader for multiple years running is VMware with a comfortable lead, especially in the enterprise market. Similarly, the desktop virtualization market has two primary leaders in Citrix and VMware, with Citrix holding down the top spot by a slim margin. The interesting twist here...

Need a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server for your authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) needs? You can spend thousands on RADIUS solutions, but there are also a number of lower-cost alternatives. These solutions are especially useful for smaller organizations that may only be using it for a single purpose, such as to implement enterprise Wi-Fi security with 802.1X authentication. Many, however, can also...

A failover cluster is a set of computer servers that work together to provide either high availability (HA) or continuous availability (CA). If one of the servers goes down, another node in the cluster can assume its workload with either minimum or no downtime through a process referred to as failover. Some failover clusters use physical servers only, whereas others involve virtual machines (VMs). The main...

The server market in 2019 is in a state of transition as new workloads and use-cases push vendors and their technology into different directions. It's a transition that is also leading the global server market to new growth, as both enterprises and cloud vendors continue to acquire new hardware. Clearly, the SSD is the dominant medium. The SSD vs. HDD debate has largely been settled;...