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Morgan Stanley's Aurora System: Designing a Next Generation Global Production Unix Environment


Xev Gittler, W. Phillip Moore and J. Rambhaskar
Morgan Stanley

Abstract

The challenge: To come up with a distributed systems environment that would allow Morgan Stanley to centrally manage tens of thousands of systems spread out over more than 30 offices on virtually every continent on the globe in a fully production fashion. The solution: The Aurora System.


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