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What is meant by Horizontal scaling and Vertical scaling?

Horizontal scaling means adding or removing client workstations with only a slight performance impact.

Vertical scaling means migrating to a larger and faster server machine or multiservers.

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Last Update: February 18, 2006

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July 14, 2005 02:35:53

Amit Saxena

RE: What is meant by Horizontal scaling and Vertical scaling?

Hi

I need to know about the subnetting in details. Can anybody help me out to provide the link or info for the same.

Regards
Amit

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January 30, 2006 07:33:20

prasanna

RE: What is meant by Horizontal scaling and...

subnetting means when an organiztaion have different departments

then the net id given to that org. is divided into to groups.each group

is alloted to one department.This grouping depends on size of the organozation.

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February 18, 2006 00:09:21

santosh

RE: What is meant by Horizontal scaling and...

subnetting is nothing but sugrregating a ip adddres into small networks

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