The word redundancy is thrown around often in today's communications equipment sector. And, for the most part, this term is used to describe systems that deliver the coveted 99.999 percent (five nines ...

The ACB technology, coupled with load current monitoring, remote diagnostics and visual indications, ensures maximum reliability in redundant power systems. the technology automatically and ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...

I am in need of some advice. I have a full sized rack at my office that houses 3 Dell servers with redundant power supplies, 2 APC UPS's, and a host of other smaller gear such as switches, a ...

As simple as iSCSI is to get running, configuring it to perform optimally requires a solid knowledge of how it actually works Over the past two weeks, I’ve written about some of the commonly ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) learned a lot of lessons from the outage that affected its Dublin data center, and will now work to improve power redundancy, load balancing and the way it communicates when ...

TDK Corporation announces the introduction of the DRM40 series DIN rail mount redundancy modules. The two 20A 10V to 30Vdc rated inputs can be connected to provide a 20A redundant configuration, or ...

I'm already running different datacenter networking configurations, some inherited and some mine. I think it's entirely possible that Ars can do better than what I've done in the past. Situation: a ...