Chicagos Tribunes Server Consolidation a Success (4 Pages 1108 Words) Summary

This case study is an analysis of the Chicago Tribunes Server consolidation in which the Chicago Tribune moved its critical applications from several mainframes and older Sun servers to new, dual-site data-center infrastructure based on Sun 15K servers. The Tribune clustered the Sun servers over a 2-mile distance, lighting up a dark-fiber, 1-Gbps link between two data centers. This configuration let the newspaper spread the processing load between the servers while improving redundancy and options for disaster recovery. (Baltzan and Philips, 2009 p 162) Company Background The Tribune is Americas largest employee-owned media company, operating businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting....