Solution DBShadow

Traditional High Availability solutions are failing to protect against logical system failures (human error, software error). With DBShadow in place you are protected against any incident, because your database is mirrored with a time delay – fully automated. In case of a logical or physical failure, you can simply switch to the mirror system and restore to the very latest consistent state of your database; and all of that within a couple of minutes.

The time-delayed database mirror resides on a second server and can be anywhere in your Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN). The mirror database is deliberately delayed with a time-lag of for example four hours. However, all changes from the production database up to the current time are available on the mirror server, but just not in the database. In case of a crash, all remaining changes which should be applied are recovered within a very short timeframe and operation continues on the mirror server.

Libelle Sales Service the High Availibility Company

The SLB feature is a Cisco IOS-based solution that provides IP server load balancing. Using the IOS�SLB feature, the network administrator defines a virtual server that represents a group of real servers in a cluster of network servers known as a server farm. In this environment the clients are configured to connect to the IP address of the virtual server. The virtual server IP address is configured as a loopback address, or secondary IP address, on each of the real servers. When a client initiates a connection to the virtual server, the IOS�SLB function chooses a real server for the connection based on a configured load-balancing algorithm.

Load balancing via a cisco. Pair with HSRP for redundant load balancing and neato HA.

Configuring Server Load Balancing

Smack is a library for communicating with XMPP servers to perform
instant messaging and chat.

Smack Key Advantages

Extremely simple to use, yet powerful API. Sending a text message to a user
can be accomplished in three lines of code:

XMPPConnection connection = new XMPPConnection("jabber.org");
connection.login("mtucker", "password");
connection.createChat("jsmith@jivesoftware.com").sendMessage("Howdy!");

Doesn't force you to code at the packet level, as other libraries do. Smack provides
intelligent higher level constructs such as the Chat and GroupChat
classes, which let you program more efficiently.

Does not require that you're familiar with the XMPP XML format, or even that you're familiar with XML.

Provides easy machine to machine communication. Smack lets you set any number of properties on
each message, including properties that are Java objects.

Open Source under the Apache License, which means you can incorporate Smack into your commercial or
non-commercial applications.

Smack: Overview - Jive Software

Prices for BSNL

DIirect Internet Access Services from BSNL India

Quantum Framework™ (QF) is a reusable event-driven application framework for executing concurrent state machines specifically designed for real-time embedded (RTE) systems. QF applications consist of independent elements called active objects that collaborate to collectively deliver the intended functionality. Active objects in QF are encapsulated tasks (each embedding an event queue and a state machine) that communicate with one another asynchronously by sending and receiving events. Within an active object, events are processed sequentially in a run-to-completion (RTC) fashion, while QF encapsulates all the details of thread-safe event exchange and queuing. QF is designed to work with Quantum Event Processor (QEP) and a scheduler/RTOS of your choice.

Quantum Framework

As computing environments become more heterogeneous, software portability becomes very important. ICU provides robust, full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms, without sacrificing performance. An open source project sponsored, supported, and used by IBM, ICU is providing robust, full-featured, commercial quality Unicode-based technologies. Supporting the most current version of the Unicode standard, including supplementary Unicode characters needed for support of the repertoires of GB 18030, HKSCS, and JIS X 0213, it offers great flexibility to extend and customize supplied services

IBM Globalization - ICU

MaxDB is a heavy-duty, SAP-certified open source database that offers high availability, scalability and a comprehensive feature set. MaxDB complements the MySQL database, extending its market reach to large mySAP ERP environments and other applications that require maximum enterprise-level database functionality. The Book of MaxDB provides a thorough overview of the product and its functionality, including installation, administration, backup and recovery, SQL development, security, and development in PHP, Python, Java, and Perl.
[Full Description]

oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Book of MaxDB, First Edition

Wow, really 'cheap' RAID storage solutions, where everything is redundant. And it uses Ultra ATA drives each on their own controller so you can cheaply expand with UATA drives for a fraction of the SCSI price. And the whole thing is easy to manage, cause its from Apple.

The Apple Store (U.S.) - Xserve RAID

Getting Started
Whitepaper: high-level overview
Concepts: architecture, user and security concepts, administration and performance
Glossary: alphabetical keyword list for experts
SQL Tutorial: using SQL with MaxDB
FAQ

MaxDB™ Documentation

There are a number of pitfalls for the person attempting to sanitize a Word document for release. This paper describes the issue, and gives a step-by-step description of how to do it with confidence that inappropriate material will not be released.

I was JUST thinking about this.

Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish Sanitized Reports Converted From Word to PDF