LinuxForce Cluster Services

High Availability Design Combined with Implementation Expertise and 24x7 System Monitoring and Support

LinuxForce's advanced approach to Server Clusters allows businesses to protect valuable data and assure continuity for their virtualized systems while minimizing overall costs, maximizing performance and freeing up staff time.

LinuxForce Cluster Services can help businesses maximize the availability, monitoring and upkeep of their critical systems. The service works by arranging multiple Linux servers in a 'cluster' configuration. Each server individually hosts critical data on Linux virtual machines (VMs) that are then replicated onto other physical servers. This unique service reduces server failure outages from hours to a matter of minutes by automatically migrating VMs to redundant hardware. Then diagnosis and recovery can proceed while services continue on another virtual server.

In order to offer our clients a fully-managed, proactive system with maximum data protection, we can combine a Linux Server Cluster with our remotely-provided systems administration service called Remote Responder℠.

The key benefits of LinuxForce Cluster Services include:

• Near-100% system availability…three-server clustering helps ensure that your critical business applications and data remain usable at all times, even when performing scheduled systems maintenance tasks — and if something does go wrong, LinuxForce's thoughtful failover configuration and quick response helps keep you up-and-running.
• Linux and FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) expertise…with LinuxForce as your technology partner, you leverage decades of combined know-how and best practices in all aspects of Linux including such leading distributions as Debian and Ubuntu.
• Innovative and leading-edge…our clusters are continuously enhanced to be more secure, more productive, more maintainable and less costly. Two specific examples of this are our automation of the most routine processes and our use of virtualization to create operating system, business application and data redundancy while minimizing system hardware.

Let us Configure a Linux Server Cluster Project to Meet Your Needs! We provide…

• Linux server cluster design, implementation, and migration;
• Continuous upgrades of Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu operating systems and business applications;
• Critical security upgrades;
• Secure remote accessibility via encrypted secure shell (SSH) connections;
• Service-level monitoring;
• Shared data storage; and
• Auditing

Our Linux expertise and remote management services let your staff focus on your core business rather than worry about your infrastructure, while still keeping your systems in-house or colocated instead of in the public cloud.

For more information, or if you have any questions, e-mail us or call us at 610-734-1900.

For more information check out these resources:

• Cluster Services Case Study.
• Cluster Services Built With FOSS.
• An Infrastructure for Server Clusters for High Availability.
• 5 things about FOSS Linux virtualization you may not know.
• File Servers - The Business Case for High Availability.
• Our article on Leveraging Linux and Managed Services To Lock Out Cyber Criminals and Keep Your Systems Humming.
• More information about our Remote Responder℠ services.