Maintaining a seamless, uninterrupted user experience is central to effective workload orchestration. With today’s tech environments spanning on-premises and cloud networks, diverse teams, and ...

As we approach the pervasive-computing era in which users will have round-the-clock access to information and services from any location, embedded-system designers are under growing pressure to boost ...

It's been said that some organizations are too big to fail. The same is true of your critical applications and data. A server crash, a power failure, even user error ...

To understand what HA solutions best fit your environment, you need to understand their history and how they've evolved. High Availability (HA) is a topic with a great deal of history. Different ...

Storage expectations in high profile or mission-critical environments command continuous and uncompromised performance with at least 99% uptime (i.e., less than 1% downtime) irrespective of all the ...

You don’t need to search too far to find news about businesses across Europe facing unpleasantly steep increases in their electricity and gas prices. Some are being landed with ten times hikes in ...

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 ...

The goal of all availability process owners is to maximize the uptime of the various online systems for which they are responsible--in essence, to make them completely fault-tolerant. Constraints ...

One upside to virtualization is that it puts more applications on fewer servers. One downside is that the availability of those servers become of greater importance. As virtualization puts more ...

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 ...