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 ...

I’m a huge fan of server virtualization for mixed purpose hosting. It’s not a perfect fit for every situation but it’s very versatile. The portability of guest operating systems adds some level of ...

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 ...

Russ Miller runs a monster of a server cluster that eats storage at an incredible rate. The bandwidth requirements alone on his 22TFLOPS system force Miller to look outside the storage box, so to ...

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 ...