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Week 13: Clustering

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/19/73910_04TCstratus_1.html Article on the Stratus ftServer W Series 4300; an example of a fault-tolerant architecture offering hot failover.

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Load-Balancing Internet Servers, IBM International Technical Support Organization, December 1997

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fault tolerance, cluster, single system image, availability, failover, cold/warm/hot failover, multi-directional failover, cascading failover, RAID, shared disk, shared nothing, heartbeat, load balancing.

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Week 13: Clustering

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