“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 ...

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 ...

It used to be that building a usable compute cluster took plenty of money, skills, and space in the datacenter. Although creating the actual applications that run on the cluster can still be difficult ...

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 ...

Enterprise application (EA) architects often face challenges in designing scalable applications that can accommodate a growing number of users and provide 24/7 availability. In this article, I'll ...