ICT

ICT sector is an area characterised by several High Performances Computing technologies application.

Companies information systems are increasingly characterized by a network service with a critical importance, both for services continuity and for the high volume of data processing request.

The high availability of computing capacity and of cluster constituted by multiple computers, allows to realize solutions as:

• High Availability (HA): availability of more computers configured in cluster is exploited to realize mission-crytical type service networks, to reduce single failure points and maximise services continuity.
• Load Balacing (LB): server inquires (eg. web-server, database-server...) are sorted to the different computers of the cluster according to load balancing algorithms which permit to obtain high level of performance, almost equivalent to the sum of the computing capacity of each computer.
• High performance storage: storage solutions SAN type allows an high throughput and high reliability, where a concurrent access to the data from different servers occurs.

These technologies are frequently combined together to sum their advantages. Derived solutions constitute excellent virtualization platforms for all fields where server consolidation is needed.

Examples of applications

• High availability of network services (High Availability)
• High traffic services balancing (Load Balancing)
• High performance database
• High performance storage
• Virtualization and server consolidation

Aethia provides complete and optimized HA and LB cluster solutions, and according to the the requirements.

High reliability and scalability of our products permit us to answer to big companies requirements but also to provide suitable HPC solutions for SMEs characterised by reduced investments.

Some examples of HPC system tested software

Apache, MySQL, Postfix, Sendmail, Samba, VMWare, XEN