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 ...

The biggest feature in the SQL Server 2019 preview launched at Ignite is SQL Server Big Data clusters. Travis Wright, Microsoft's principal program manager for SQL Server, explains exactly what this ...

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 ...

Understanding Cluster Computing Fundamentals So, what exactly is this ‘cluster computing’ everyone’s talking about? Think of ...

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 ...

Nothing is more important for an enterprise application than scalability and availability. Learn how to use clustering to meet both existing and future demands. Enterprise application (EA) architects ...

Last week I used every Raspberry Pi that I had to build a six-node HexaPi computing cluster. Since then I have been asked a number of times: what is it good for? So I'm going to take a look at the ...

Many of you have heard the term clustering. It is being thrown around as a buzzword by sales people, developers and just about anybody that deals with J2EE technology. For a lot of people it just ...

With the free Citrix XenServer virtualization platform, it's easy to create a highly available virtual server cluster; here's how High availability used to be expensive, requiring both specialized ...