Blogs
BEAR Contracts a Print/Copy/Solution to Gold Coast City Council
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on: 06/04/2012
BEAR is pleased to be have been selected to provide our print and copy payment solution coupled with Pharos Signup PC Reservation to Gold Coast City Council Libraries (https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/library/). The solution will enable library patrons across 11 library sites to print documents via follow me printing, copy documents on a fleet of Ricoh MFDs and reserve PCs [...]
Have You Heard of the WWF Format?
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on: 08/08/2011
I was at the beach recently with a friend and our kids. The inevitable shop talk started up and during the conversation I was asked what I though of the new WWF file format. Not knowing too much about the format I decided some research was in order. At a basic level its a document format that does not allow [...]
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Cluster Buster! (without being to technical)
by: | in: Blogs, Support Team | on: 24/08/2010
What is a Cluster or Clustering?
A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely thus in many respects forming a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other through fast local area networks. Clusters are usually deployed to improve performance and/or availability over that of a single computer, while typically being much more cost-effective than single computers of comparable speed or availability.(Borrowed from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster)
How does one go about Busting a Cluster?
By successfully installing and customizing software solutions to meet a customer’s requirements.
What are the Benefits of clustering?
Load balancing, high availability, the sharing of services across one or more servers, centralized management of services and seamless failover.
Clustered BEARs???
A Group of BEARs is known as a Sleuth. This has no relevance to any BEAR Solutions software; I did not know what a group of bears was called. Google provided this answer. Thankyou Google.
Seriously though Clustering should be given due consideration when considering your distaster recovery plans. Its good to know that BEAR software will support clustered environments.
Kier Morrison - on August 24, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Thanks Chris
I didn’t know what a cluster of BEAR was until this in depth article!
A Sleuth, fancy that.