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Mission-Critical Reliability

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When you rely on computers to run your business, failure is not an option. Is Windows NT reliable enough for mission-critical applications? What does the emergence of NT cluster capability mean to anyone asking that question? This month, Windows NT Magazine evaluates NT availability options that can keep your company up--even during a failure.


NT Security Setup with Windows for Workgroups

By Alex Pournelle, 08/01/1996

Combining NT and WFW isn't easy as you think. You have to plan first.

DHCP and Assigning IP Addresses

By Mark Minasi, 08/01/1996

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol eliminates the aches and pains of installing an IP address on every computer in your company.

In Search of Clusters

By Mark Smith, 08/01/1996

The coming battle in lowly parallel computing.

Attaining Availability—Avoiding Failure

By Valda Hilley, 08/01/1996

Suddenly losing your mission-critical server can devastate your business, but few companies plan methods to avoid disaster. Windows NT Server offers many availability options to ...

Your Own Personal Internet

By John Enck, 08/01/1996

Build your own intranet to bring a variety of server-based information to your desktop.

Octopus by Octopus Technologies

By John Enck, 08/01/1996

Octopus by Octopus Technologies is realtime data mirroring overnetwork connections.

Telephony? Just Call on NT

By Warren Pickett, 08/01/1996

NT opens the airwaves to potential cellular customers with Telemac's Debit Technology.

The “Official” List of NT Server 4.0 Enhancements

By John Enck, 08/01/1996

NT Server 4.0 included all the enhancements listed for NT Workstation plus more.

NetXRay by Cinco Networks

By John Enck, 08/01/1996

NetXRay by Cinco Networks turns your NT system into a network monitor.

Oberon Prospero

By John Enck, 08/01/1996

Oberon Software's Prospero is a graphical development tool for constructing Windows-based applications.

Configuring and Administering DNS

By Spyros Sakellariadis, 08/01/1996

Explore how Domain Name System helps you locate remote computers by name so you can conveniently find the hosts you need. Part 1 of this two-part series explains the basic DNS ...

The “Official” List of NT Workstation 4.0 Enhancements

By John Enck, 08/01/1996

The major enhancements that will be available in the final release of NT 4.0.

Internationalisation Issues

By Jon Honeyball, 08/01/1996

Uncover some important lessons for US companies--and the mistakes to avoid--when entering the European NT market.

PDCs, BDCs, and Availability

By Ed Tittel, 08/01/1996

Keep your job-and your sanity. Create a backup system.

Digital Clusters for Windows NT

By Joel Sloss, 08/01/1996

Achieving 99.9% server up-time with NT is now a real possibility with Digital clusters.

Closing In on Clusters

By Mark Smith, 08/01/1996

The time is ripe for clustering to move into high-volume server markets such as the one Windows NT serves. This level-setting, comprehensive analysis clarifies the issues and ...

Reader to Reader - August 1996

By Readers, 08/01/1996

Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).

An Interview with Telemac

By Warren Pickett, 08/01/1996

Here is what Greg McGregor and John Dismuke had to say about implementing NT.

The Compaq Report

By Joel Sloss, 08/01/1996

The Lab staff revisits the ProLiant 4500.

Compaq Goes to Businessville

By Joel Sloss, 08/01/1996

Taking on the desktop business computing environment, Compaq has revamped its entire line of desktop PCs, consolidated various models under the family name Deskpro.

Domain Troubleshooting and Planning

By Scott Weppler, 08/01/1996

Find out what's going on when you run into trouble setting up and maintaining NT domains.

RAID Tech Talk

By Valda Hilley, 08/01/1996

RAID terms and definitions.

Bridging the Gap

By Mark Smith, 08/01/1996

Microsoft won't rest until all its building blocks are standards.

PowerPC Gets Serious About Windows NT

By Mark Smith, 08/01/1996

Excluding the PowerPC when you're thinking about NT could be a mistake. The PowerPC team has a strategy for getting its platform to the top.

A Quick View of Beta 2

By John Enck, 08/01/1996

Discover the neat, new capabilities of NT 4.0 beta 2.

Interview with Gregory Pfister

By Mark Smith, 08/01/1996

Here is what Gregory Pfister had to say about clusters and Wolfpacks.

Windows Multi-DBMS Programming

By Michael D. Reilly, 08/01/1996

Evaluating the tools for multiple databases

Ask Dr. Bob Your NT Questions

By Bob Chronister, 08/01/1996

Answers to questions about installing Windows 3.51, what is HSM, NT and Compuserve, the syntax of BOOT.INI, installing NT, and more.

Buy the Numbers

By Joel Sloss, 08/01/1996

The "Windows NT Magazine" Lab adopted the BAPCo SYSmark Windows NT bechmark test.


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