What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

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Distributed caches find use in conventional J2EE applications that provide the backbone for server clustering. For example, if you have a distributed, clustered Web application, a distributed cache ...

Editor's note: This is the full version of the article "DSI: Secure Carrier-Class Linux" found in the July 2002 print edition of Linux Journal. The telecommunication industry's interest in clustering ...

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This week our Special Focus takes a look at products that promise to combine disparate file systems into a single package with a single namespace. These clustered or SAN file systems have several ...

The interest in clustering from the telecommunications industry originates with the fact that clusters address carrier-class characteristics, such as guaranteed service availability, reliability and ...

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Increasingly inter-connected IT systems are generating an ever-greater volume of data. Indeed, it is an oft-repeated claim that 90% of all the world’s data has been generated within the last two years ...