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Today it seems like it's all about the network. The Internet has created an environment in which the network really is the computing platform of the 21st century. With this emphasis on the network, you better keep yours up all the time. Many organizations that rely on their networks for customer interaction now measure network outages in thousands, or even millions, of dollars per hour . Obviously, these types of mission-critical environments require network components that are always available.
NetWare 6.5 offers powerful, high-availability solutions to help you keep your network ready for high profile attention. Chapter 11 discusses the multiprocessing and clustering technologies available in NetWare 6.5. These technologies let you do a lot more with the hardware and server space you have, remove bottlenecks to efficient server operation and generally makes life much easier for users of busy networks. Furthermore, Novell Cluster Services (NCS), when used in conjunction with Network Attached Storage (NAS) or Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies, can create a network-computing infrastructure that is virtually indestructible from the client perspective. Services and data are always available; servers are always up. Business processes, therefore, run more efficientlyensuring the network infrastructure is helping, rather than hindering , an organization's business imperatives.
Finally, Chapter 12 discusses two additional Novell technologies that will take you even further into Novell's One Net vision: Nterprise Branch Office and DirXML Starter Pack. Nterprise Branch Office is an appliance especially designed to deliver all the network features necessary while being remotely managed from your central office. DirXML is Novell's award-winning directory solution that lets you configure eDirectory as a central meta-directory through which data shared among disparate systems can be synchronized. Two powerful network solutions offered for the first time ever as part of the NetWare product bundle!
