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 ...

Unfortunately, when I tried to configure failover clustering with Windows Server 2008, the initial clustering verification test and installation failed indicating that Windows Server 2008 could not ...

Software plans for making high-end computing jobs less susceptible to system crashes are ratcheting ahead. The niche has some analysts making large growth predictions. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025 Failover Clusters now officially support running Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) CSVs (Cluster Shared Volumes) and traditional SAN ...

FalconStor's Network Storage Server (NSS), an appliance for storage virtualization, virtualization, and thin provisioning, now has specific integration with Windows Server 2008 Multi-Site Clustering ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

The next version of Windows Server is coming soon, and in this article I'll look at some of the improvements and new features. Recently Microsoft held a Windows Server summit, full of (pre-recorded ...

The web-based UI for managing all aspects of Windows Server, Windows Server Admin Center (WAC) sure has grown up a lot in the last seven years. If you're new to the concept, you can run WAC on a ...