Coyote Point helps healthcare organization consolidate servers

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
06/23/05
Today's focus: Coyote Point helps healthcare organization
consolidate servers

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Today's focus: Coyote Point helps healthcare organization
consolidate servers

By Denise Dubie

When Anthony Acquanita decided to build a load-balanced server
system, he was uncertain about two things: if the open source
technology he typically depended upon would meet all his needs,
and if the price tags on commercial products would fall within
his budget.

The senior system administrator at Byram Healthcare, which is
headquartered in Milford, Conn., says last fall he started his
research to find a way to consolidate servers, such as the DNS,
DHCP and mail systems, to reduce bottlenecks and simplify
administration.

Acquanita, who works out of Byram's White Plains, N.Y.,
location, says he wanted to update how the systems handle
multiple jobs and share the workload.

"We had an infrastructure with multiple servers, and each server
had multiple functions. There was no redundancy and no load
balancing, except at the application level," he says. "We
couldn't take a server down for work and know that it wouldn't
affect end users."

About four months ago, Acquanita started working with Coyote
Point Systems and rolled out two of the vendors Equalizer E350
appliances. The load balancers sit in front of four servers and
balance the load among them, acting somewhat like a router.

"Instead of buying multiple servers, we bought a small number of
load balancers and they basically performed our server
consolidation for us," he explains. "The servers can now, behind
the load balancers, perform tasks they couldn't perform before."

According to Coyote Point, the Equalizer appliances let systems
administrators distribute requests across a pool of servers
according to their specific criteria, manage more than 10
million connections per hour, automatically detect changes in
server status and route requests, enable transactions across
multiple connections with session persistence, and add or remove
servers without bringing the site down, among other things.

Acquanita says now he can "test new software or take physical
servers down without end users noticing it," which adds
flexibility to his job and improves IT service delivery to end
users.

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Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management
for Network World. Reach her at <mailto:ddubie@nww.com>.
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