One of the really great things about Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is that it removes the requirement for shared storage. Microsoft recommends the use of a cluster shared volume ...

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 ...

As I'm preparing to deploy a new 2-node SQL Server 2014 Standard failover cluster, I'm considering what would be the best way to set up its storage. For the reference, the OS will be Windows Server ...

Hitachi Data Systems on Wednesday introduced software that adds failover clustering to its enterprise-oriented Universal Storage Platform V controller. Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) provides ...

FalconStor's Network Storage Server (NSS), an appliance for storage virtualization, virtualization, and thin provisioning, now has specific integration with Windows Server 2008 Multi-Site Clustering ...

The trickiest thing about making a stretched cluster work with Hyper-V is getting the underlying storage to work properly. Although Hyper-V can easily function on a standalone server (or even on a ...

Pure Storage Inc. customers had a common reaction to the all-flash vendor's addition of an active failover cluster for multisite replication: It's about time. The vendor added ActiveCluster stretch ...

Clustered storage technology has emerged as a means for meeting a growing corporate need to better manage an ever-growing supply of network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The technology allows IT to ...