| During the final decade of the twentieth century, Microsoft achieved historic levels of marketing success in the computing business. Microsoft offered an alternative so economically appealing to the computing industry that resistance seemed futile in all but a few cases.
Two questions remain. First, “Is there a solution to the downtime and business interruption often associated with Microsoft Server platforms?” This alone is compelling enough for some computing environments in which the Microsoft solution is not considered acceptable.
The second question is “How can this solution cost-effectively increase the capacity of our data processing resources?” In other words, how can the Microsoft solution grow with future computing needs.
Clustering provides an answer to both of these questions.
For a moment let us turn to a story told by the late, great Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Her words, in what we simply call the oxen story, provide an illuminating parallel to the computing system dilemma that we face. The story expressed her vision about the future of computing; Rear Admiral Hopper was, in effect, predicting the future in which we are now living. She has our deepest respect as an inventor and visionary in the field of computing. This story of hers really says it all. |
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