REDMOND, Wash. — June 9, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing of Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003, the company’s first software offering designed to run parallel, ...

Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping the first "release candidate" or RC for its long-awaited Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The server, due in June, is Microsoft’s first entry into the ...

It used to be that building a usable compute cluster took plenty of money, skills, and space in the datacenter. Although creating the actual applications that run on the cluster can still be difficult ...

You are configuring a failover cluster for a Web server. You are assigning four nodes to the cluster. All nodes have access to a SAN and there is adequate space available. Which of the following ...

Besides the native Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL powerhouse, there's always been one other place the *nixes and workalikes have had Windows consistently bested—clustered computing (some like to call it ...

Microsoft will support eight-node failover clusters in Windows .NET Enterprise Server. The decision came months after the Beta 3 release of the Windows .NET Server family editions back in November, ...

So last night I was building a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a virtual environment with Windows Server 2008 on the free version of VMware Server. When building clusters on VMware, I typically ...

“Web Review”High availability and scalability are desirable for any Web site. Unfortunately, far too often high prices for software and hardware, in conjunction with complex implementations, have kept ...

The chapter includes; the new features associated with failover clustering for both SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, it then covers step-by-steps on implementing a two node single instance ...

Can I ask a question as I've never played with Windows clustering - does it only help you if a physical server dies, as in can't ping it or the witness can't contact it, or does it have the brains to ...