Server environments incorporate industrial strength components such as disk drives, memory, fans and power supplies that provide very high reliability and performance.
Other considerations including system redundancy, disk arrays, multi-processors and high availability add robustness to a critically valued platform. The server will also include high bandwidth links to the network to maximise data throughput to clients. Infrastructures can range from single to multi-server environments depending on clients and applications. This is normally determined through preliminary consultation. If a client has multiple applications it is likely that a multi-server infrastructure would be recommended: - Application server - a server dedicated to running certain software applications eg financials
- Comms server - carrier graded platform for comms eg email
- Database server - database server eg Oracle, SQL etc.
- Fax server - fax services
- File server - file and print services
- Web server - internet access server
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