Last month I attended a session on Failover Clustering at the SQL PASS Summit Conference and it was very enlightening. I have not done too much with SQL Server Failover Clustering except in test mode ...

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...

“Web Review”High availability and scalability are desirable for any Web site. Unfortunately, far too often high prices for software and hardware, in conjunction with complex implementations, have kept ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

While virtualization and the cloud have dramatically improved server utilization, they have also turned servers and server clusters into amorphous “black boxes” that have made it difficult, if not ...

New capabilities in the Perforce versioning engine, P4D, enable support for tens of thousands of concurrent users in a single data center, adding a high availability option with automated failover A ...

We plan to implement a 2-node MS SQL 2000 or 2005 cluster and I need to know the requirements.<BR><BR>Here are some info that I gathered:<BR><BR>* Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter ...

Software plans for making high-end computing jobs less susceptible to system crashes are ratcheting ahead. The niche has some analysts making large growth predictions. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...