Definitely, failover clustering is a hot topic within the SQL community – specifically if you are trying to obtain high availability and minimize data loss. My latest title SQL Server 2008 Management ...

While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, when I tried to configure failover clustering with Windows Server 2008, the initial clustering verification test and installation failed indicating that Windows Server 2008 could not ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...

Almost all database workloads are now (or eventually will be) virtualized. High availability (HA) clusters using virtual servers provide the application protection needed to satisfy even the most ...

Anyone running a clustered MS SQL setup on top of vSphere? This will be something new for us, but we have a database that can't go down ever. I remember reading about this in passing a couple of years ...

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A new service that leverages Microsoft’s Azure cloud for large-scale extended storage could enable more, and perhaps smaller, businesses to host their own applications in a hybrid cloud configuration.