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 ...

Microsoft has detailed a couple of improvements to the way Azure SQL Database handles failovers in case of an outage. It works with individual databases, elastic pools, or a combination of both. The ...

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 ...

If you’re looking for failover protection, NSI’s Double-Take may be worth a look. Double-Take replicates data from one or mores sources (the servers you want protected) to a target server, which can ...

In computing, a failover cluster refers to a group of independent servers that work together to maintain high availability of applications and services. If one of the servers fails, another node in ...

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 ...