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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 supports running Exchange in a cluster of as many as eight nodes, and the functionality is great. If any of the nodes fails or is brought down for maintenance, the ...

IBM is joining Hewlett- Packard to offer Microsofts Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 for its high-performance computer products. The partnership was presaged by IBMs February announcement that it ...

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 ...

Windows OS High Availability (HA) is a tricky part of your disaster recovery (DR) planning. Many Microsoft and third-Party server tools and platforms come with some form of native HA toolset, and for ...

Windows Server issues aren't entirely uncommon, but they can often be a major headache as they affect enterprise customers. In June, we reported that the Patch Tuesday update had broken the DHCP ...