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 ...

Title is self explanatory. I need to set up a 3 machine cluster that will have local storage on each node. These machines will be doing print serving, dhcp, and AD(not in the cluster). I can't find a ...

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 ...

One of the main sticking points with learning Hyper-V is getting your head around the Clustered Shared Volumes technique to provide .VHD files on a SAN to multiple Hyper-V hosts. The CSV technique is ...

A new service that leverages Microsoft’s Azure cloud for large-scale extended storage could enable more, and perhaps smaller, businesses to host their own applications in a hybrid cloud configuration.

In recent years, there has been a trend in which data centers have been opting for commodity hardware and software over proprietary solutions. Why shouldn't they? It offers extremely low costs and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...