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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Okay, here's the deal, we accidently got SQL Server 2000 the normal one, not the Enterprise Edition sucker. Does anybody know if it's possible to get clustering working with it? All the white papers I ...

So a thread I started a while back really got me questioning the basis from how we've configured our setup for disaster recovery, and I'm really starting to think it's flawed, or at least can be ...

Intel ESAA gives resellers and direct Intel OEMs access to a wide range of pre-validated configuration guides (“recipes”) jointly developed by Intel and independent hardware and software vendors (IxVs ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

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 ...