IBM Developerworks: High-availability middleware on Linux, Part 5: IBM DB2 Universal Database | Linux Today

IBM Developerworks: High-availability middleware on Linux, Part 5: IBM DB2 Universal Database

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 21, 2005

“Data is the blood of a modern, on demand business; the system
that stores and moves that data around — servers, networks,
databases — is the heart. But both are inert components without
the heartbeat — having reliable, readily available access to that
data, access with minimum downtime.

“The first installment of this series, High-availability
middleware on Linux, Part 1: Heartbeat and Apache Web server,
introduced high availability (HA) concepts and how to install and
configure heartbeat. This part, the final installment of the
series, covers the HA implementation for DB2 UDB 8.1 in a cold
standby configuration using heartbeat…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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