One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

In a world that appears to be governed by Murphy's Laws, anything can go wrong. Accidents ranging from machine crashes, media failures, operator errors and random data corruption to such catastrophes ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: With enterprises growing larger each day, it has become customary for most of them to distribute their databases across locations. For instance, a national level company might wish ...

Backups, snapshots, cloning and replication are all valuable ways of protecting the organisation’s data. In this article, we’ll look at replication, in particular between storage arrays. Key to this ...

The successful migration from purely private to public and hybrid cloud arrangements has substantially increased the level of confidence IT administrators have in the cloud. And among the top cloud ...

- we will deploy a custom intranet web app (web server + app server + db server) across 3 geographical regions. - testing confirms that latency between the 3 regions is too high (actual bandwidth is ...

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 ...