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 ...

Microsoft has detailed a couple of improvements to the way Azure SQL Database handles failovers in case of an outage. It works with individual databases, elastic pools, or a combination of both. The ...

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 ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...

Running SQL Server in the cloud can give users of the database software more flexibility and scalability than on-premises deployments offer -- and maybe save them some money, too. But things often go ...

If you’re looking for failover protection, NSI’s Double-Take may be worth a look. Double-Take replicates data from one or mores sources (the servers you want protected) to a target server, which can ...