Business growth through scalable server farming

Server farms are also known as clusters and computer farms, but in essence the term refers to a group of networked servers, which operate as a single entity and are housed in a single location. Server farms fulfil a number of requirements but in the majority of cases they are used in the scaling of a business solution as the organisation grows.

The clusters allow for the distribution of workloads between the farm's variable components. This streamlines internal processes because applications are powered by the unified potential of multiple servers.

Table of Contents

• Maximising your ROI through sustainable server farming

• Server farming
• When do businesses find the need to scale?
• Server farming: a history
• Benefits of server farming in short:
• Benefits of clustering to different business sizes:
• SMEs
• Larger enterprises
• Which Linux server solutions can benefit from clustering?
• Server scaling options
• Scaling up
• Scaling out
• Case study - Google
• Scaling diagonally
• Limiting factors for server farming
• Glusters - a new, Linux-based technology
• Managed services for clustered solutions
• Outsourcing managed services for cost effectiveness
• The future of server farming - scaling in and scaling out
• Conclusion

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