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Published 11/05/2009 by CIO Decisions


Exploring Microsoft Windows clustering and high-availability tools in disaster recovery

While Microsoft Corp. has made great strides adding clustering and high availability (HA) to Windows Server, Exchange and Hyper-V, organizations are a long way from relying solely on its products to ensure high availability.

The expense of Windows clustering can scare off smaller...

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"There's nothing worse than going to the owner of the company and saying 'We'll be down eight to 10 hours,'" said Martin Silverman...
...running 2003). "If we had Exchange in a cluster, we would have a SAN as a data store and two boxes to cluster" he said. "In our situation...

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