The IT industry is going through a major shift from centralized data centers to dispersed deployments across a variety of cloud and on-premise platforms. At the same time, availability is becoming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Unlike most of the world, an online retail business never sleeps, which means that the systems powering an online retailer’s critical operations can never sleep either. If the organization wants to ...

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 ...

Data is the lifeblood of the supply chain. It doesn’t matter whether you’re moving bits, bins or boxcars. Where those boxcars are, when they need to be somewhere else, who is facilitating each ...