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In today’s business world, IT terms are commonplace, and having a basic understanding of them is vital. No matter what industry you work in, being computer savvy gives you a competitive edge. If you think that all computers are alike, think again. There are several key differences between servers and workstations essential to know before purchasing such equipment.
While at your desk, you likely are using one of your firms Dell workstations. These computers can be viewed as your company's in and out boxes. Here you can enter or retrieve data, such as documents, spreadsheets, and images. Some workstations might have their own storage for your personal files, but many do not. Besides your own, you can access information that other employees have entered on their workstations. Connected via your company’s network, all this data is stored on a server. While basically a powerful PC, the server is the workhorse for your business. There are several types and your company likely has several of each. The file server is where all those documents, spreadsheets and presentations are stored. You can think of it as a huge filing cabinet. When you need that report ready for your management meeting, you will utilize one of your companies print servers. Files opened on your workstation and printed are funneled through the print server and to the printer you selected.
When you open the browser on your workstation to research solutions, you are using your company’s web server to access the internet. This same server is also keeping your network safe with its anti-virus and security programs. Together these servers and the connected workstations allow today’s businesses to run smoothly and efficiently. What would we do without them? |
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Practical VM Architecture: Highly Available Now that we understand how to handle managing VM sprawl, and we know we need to scale an application horizontally, let's take the next step and build a VM infrastructure that's capable of fault-tolerant operation. |
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Practical Architectures: Scaling with VMs Virtualization allows you to better utilize your servers, and effectively increasing that utilization can be a big cost-saver. Now that it is so easy to duplicate server instances using virtual machines, it makes sense to start talking about the best way to take advantage of this new ability. Improved application availability and performance can now be realized without many of the complications that used to plague us. How you go about it, however, may vary depending on the application in question. |
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Five Linux Resources to Keep You in the Know Keeping up with Linux is a time-consuming endeavor. Linux is frequently changing, and it's so large and widely-used that it is nearly impossible to keep up with all the evolution. With open source communities come power, productivity, and efficiency; so much that it is difficult to know what is happening. |
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Five Security Mailing Lists You Should Read Keeping up on security isn’t something you can afford to do lackadaisically. Everyone does, in the beginning, until that fateful day when important servers are compromised. More often than not, it could have been prevented if the server managers read the most important security mailing lists daily. |
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Judging Vendor Health How do you know that your vendor, supplier, or service provider will be around in a few years’ time? It is depressing to buy a 3-year support agreement and think that you’re covered in the event that something goes wrong, only to find out that the company just filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Maybe they will be acquired by a stable company and still operate the business unit you care about, maybe not. |
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