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 ...

We are developing an asp.net web application for an internal company website. The web app makes heavy use of an SQL database and I feel that future bottlenecks will come down to SQL performance. In ...

I'm working on a project for a client and we are developing a proposed network structure for their needs.<BR><BR>At the moment there is no budget. $500,000 would not be an unreasonable order, once ...

Sharing the Load Microsoft Network Load Balancing Services Microsoft has enhanced the Network Load Balancing (NLB) Services in Windows Server 2003 to make it easier to use and more accessible. Like ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Virtualization and clustering can be two faces of the same coin. Computing virtualization is a very hot topic for data center managers. Whether the motivation is higher utilization, reduced management ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

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 ...