Microsoft Exchange server downtime costs companies millions of dollars a year. Technically savvy IT organizations are therefore working to eliminate or lessen the impact of both planned and unplanned ...

SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

Microsoft now allows Software Assurance customers for supported releases of SQL Server to benefit from three disaster recovery benefits, including two new options and one previously available option.

Backups and disaster recovery are well-worn topics for which there exists an unlimited amount of conflicting guidance. Everyone has an opinion about how to go about it, but in the end each ...

Disaster Recovery Be prepared for disasters, such as server crash, database or mailbox corruption, etc. Disaster may strike unexpectedly, which can lead to downtime and data loss. Based on the level ...

Virtualisation has revolutionised the way we deploy applications in the datacentre, and arguably that stretches to disaster recovery. Server provisioning that previously took weeks or months is ...

Nemertes Research just published the second volume of its research into data centers. In our research, we found that one of the top five business drivers for virtualization is recoverability – the ...

Microsoft announced on Oct. 30 that it expanded SQL Server passive use rights for organizations licensing SQL Server with Software Assurance (SA) coverage. Organizations with SA coverage on SQL Server ...

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

This data center has had problems with its database servers for most of a decade, reports a pilot fish on the inside. “A few years ago, one of the cluster servers failed completely, so the disaster ...