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MSDN Webcast: Distributed Object Caching and Distributed Sessions for .NET Applications in Server Farms (Level 200)

Distributed object caching can significantly improve an application's performance, scalability, and availability. Additionally, .NET applications running in server farms must cache distributed objects to automatically synchronize the data among servers. Through this webcast one can learn about distributed object caching, and to find out how to use ASP.NET sessions in...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft .NET, Webcast, Server Farm, Server, Session

Webcasts

Performance Impact of Load Balancers on Server Farms by BMC Software

Server farms can help you significantly improve the reliability and scalability of your computing and Web services. Now learn how choosing the right load balancer can help you maximize the performance potential of server farms. Download now!

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Performance, Server Farm, Server, It Management, It service Management

White papers

Google looking to build world's biggest server farm in Asia

According to some reports, Google is interested in setting up the "world's largest data center" in Malaysia. The Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told journalists at the World Economic Forum in Davos that, "They want to make their presence felt in Malaysia. It will be a big boost for our...

Tags: Google Inc., Server Farm, Server, Malaysia, Data Centers, Construction, Storage, Benefits, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2008-01-28

Building a Scalable NFS Server With GPFS

As server farms continue to get larger the need for a scalable network file system based on the industry standard NFS protocols becomes more apparent. Linux NFS will not handle these large server farms from a single server. More robust storage subsystems are prohibitively expensive and therefore defeat one of...

Tags: Network File System, Server Farm, Server

White papers 2007-12-12

Server Farm Security in the Business Ready Data Center Architecture v2.1

Enterprise data centers contain the assets, applications, and data that are often targeted by electronic attacks. Endpoints such as data center servers are key objectives of malicious attacks and must be protected. Attacks against server farms can result in lost business for e-commerce and business-to-business applications, and the theft of...

Tags: Data Center, Server Farm, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., Attack, Data Centers, Storage, Security, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2006-11-01

--> Potential for Active Directory Trap/Wall for Disaster Recovery

I am currently working on a server rollout and am pondering the possibilities of setting up an Active Directory Trap/Firewall for these servers. The servers in question are AD integrated and, consequently, AD changes flow through and could impact my server farm.What would happen if I setup a 3 AD-Trap...

Tags: Servers, Tony@..., disaster recovery, server, advertisement, server farm, Microsoft Windows Active Directory

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Data Center Design and Implementation With Cisco Catalyst 6500 Service Modules: Overview

This paper focuses on using firewalls and load balancers in the data center. Load balancers distribute incoming requests to multiple servers, while firewalls analyze the traffic to avoid common attacks to the server farm. Although load balancing and firewalling can be deployed individually, these two technologies are often deployed together,...

Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Data Center, Load Balancing, Server Farm, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., Tier, Data Centers, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Networking

White papers 2004-06-30

Create a scalable thin client solution with Terminal Server farms

As the number of terminal services users in your organization grows, you can keep up with the load by implementing a terminal server farm. Back in the summer of 2005, this column discussed how you can use thin client technologies such as Microsoft's Terminal Services to create...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, Servers, Deb Shinder, Terminal services, Network technology, server farm, terminal server, server, farm, load balancing, thin client, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Service, News, Windows TS, Independent Computing Architecture Client Software, Hardware

Technical articles 2006-09-18

Deploying Private VLANS in the Data Center

Deploying Private VLANs PVLANs in an enterprise data center environment provides an effective means of sparing IP address space and controlling Layer 2 access to servers and devices residing within the server farm. The Layer 2 isolation provided by PVLANs is an excellent way to supplement additional Layer 3 security...

Tags: Layer 2, Data Center, Server Farm, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., Subnet, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2003-03-01

Create a scalable thin client solution with Terminal Server farms

Windows 2003 Standard Editon also supports NLBThe article states that only Enterprise and Data Center editions support NLB, but I beg to differ: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/81999f39-41e9-4388-8d7d-7430ec4cc4221033.mspx?mf

Tags: networking, windows, NLB, rjstephan@..., Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, server farm, thin client

Discussion threads 2006-11-16

Terminal Server farm & data storage?

I'm trying to create Terminal Server Farm with Windows 2003R2 Enterprise Edition for load balancing. The problem is with the data, though I've placed it on a sahred storage box (HP's MSA 500G2) thru SCSI connect ot the servers. Users thru one terminal server are not able to see the...

Tags: data storage, Distributed File System, hardware, jagan.krish@..., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, server farm, storage, Terminal Server Farm, Windows 2003 R2

Q&A 2006-08-06

Build a scalable, flexible, and highly-available data center

Data centers are rapidly evolving to accommodate higher expectations for growth, consolidation, and security. Although the traditional Layer 2 and Layer 3 designs have not changed drastically over the last few years, stringent demands for uptime and service availability, coupled with new technology and protocols, make the design efforts more...

Tags: Cisco Press, consolidation, data center, high availability, LAN, Layer 2, Layer 3, scalability, security, server, server farm, service availability, topology, uptime

Download resources 2005-08-19

Windows Server 2003 server farms? info?

Hay guys, been getting into servers for a while, so just working my way through them, i work with afew guys who do alot of server farm work, i have been researching on the net but cant find much on windows server farms.Can any one provide any information? whats the...

Tags: hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, nick@..., server, server farm

Discussion threads 2005-02-11

Windows Server 2003 server farms? info?

Hay guys, been getting into servers for a while, so just working my way through them, i work with afew guys who do alot of server farm work, i have been researching on the net but cant find much on windows server farms.Can any one provide any information? whats the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, nick@..., server, server farm, windows

Q&A 2005-02-11

Get IT Done: Use Visio to create at-a-glance documentation of your server farm

Set up a big-picture diagram of a server farm with hundreds of servers.Microsoft Visio is one of the most popular network diagramming packages available, and with good reason. It has superb capabilities, albeit with a bit of a learning curve. And since it is widely used, sharing diagrams with colleagues...

Tags: Servers, Scott Lowe MCSE, Get IT Done, server, server farm, Microsoft Visio, network

Technical articles 2002-03-29

Maximizing the configuration of rack-based server farms

Get the details of how a netadmin moved 48 servers that needed 149 cables into three cabinets.In my previous article, "Building out a rack-based server farm," I discussed the hardware we chose when we built out our company’s initial Windows 2000 server farm. This hardware—Dell rack dense servers, Dell cabinet...

Tags: Servers, server farm, Scott Lowe MCSE, server, cabinet, cable

Technical articles 2001-07-05

Building out a rack-based server farm

Building out a server farm takes careful planning and consideration. This systems engineer was assigned by his company to build out a data center of rack-based servers at a hosted facility. Check out the equipment he chose and the decisions he made.At the end of December 2000, I accepted a...

Tags: Servers, Scott Lowe MCSE, server, hardware, Dell Computer Corp., build-out, server farm

Technical articles 2001-06-28

Additional Resources

Citrix Farms and Licences

We have a farm in a hosted environment, with a comnection to a second remote farm. We understand that all we need to do is to connect to the Licence server at the Hosted farm, and need not be part of that domain, although we may need an account on...

Tags: chris.ward@..., farm, Hosted, Citrix Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

MPSAdmin (zip)

MPS Admin is an easy to use tool to administer a Metaframe Presentation Server farm. With just a few mouse clicks you can extend your farm with new servers and publish all existing applications to it. You can take a server offline for users while it s available for administrators...

Tags: Application, MPS Admin, Mice, Servers, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2006-02-09

Little Farm (exe)

Have a little down-home fun on the Little Farm. Help the Normans adjust to farm life and grow truckloads of vegetables. First you must battle insects, animals, and weather as you race against the clock to grow your harvest. Match like-colored patches in your farm field to water plump pumpkins,...

Tags: Patch Management, SpinTop Games, Patches

Software downloads 2008-06-20