With the advent of load-balancing clusters for Web servers and of Linux-based clusters for scientific computing and database clustering, many rack-mount servers are advertised based on the number of ...

As a longtime a fan of utility servers and “the right tool for the job”, I’m still amused at how odd the idea of a Mac mini as a server can be. They don’t look like servers. They don’t have redundant ...

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 ...

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 ...