SQL Server customers have other choices for the same capabilities – for example, Windows Server Failover Clustering — but Boxley says they are more expensive.

Disaster recovery planning The disaster recovery plan for IT builds on the business continuity plan with specific strategies that protect the organization’s data and ensure critical applications can ...

The public cloud offers a myriad of options for providing high availability and disaster recovery protections for SQL Server database applications. Conversely, some of the options available in a ...

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, ...

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 ...

While these limitations might be acceptable as part of a disaster recovery strategy for some applications, they are unacceptable for mission-critical SQL Server applications.

DH2i, a provider of multi-platform disaster recovery and cost improvement solutions, is being added to Microsoft's SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery Partners List. The SQL Server High ...

Microsoft is less than two weeks away from launching SQL Server 2012, the next generation of its database software, and channel partners are already deep into proof-of-concept development work and ...