Xkoto releases a new version of its GridScale software for IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server with new clustering technology. The company's technology is also available on Amazon EC2, a move that ...

Ask 10 people 'What is high availability?' and you might get 15 different answers. For the purposes here, HA will be defined as ensuring SQL Server is operating when and as needed. 'When' takes into ...

I'm currently trying to develop a SQL cluster for our production databases. One of my goals is to make it possible to load balance the databases without needing to reconfigure the client. Also it ...

I have an application which we intend to deploy to a multinode, active/active SQL cluster. This application has two types of databases - one is an operational store, of which there can be N of ...

Almost all database workloads are now (or eventually will be) virtualized. High availability (HA) clusters using virtual servers provide the application protection needed to satisfy even the most ...

Sequoia is an open-source offering that, so its creators claim, can give your application clustering, load balancing and failover support without any modification of your existing applications or ...

Products that support Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and Oracle databases will come later in 2006. As will uni/cluster for universal database support, Continuent executives say.

According to documents posted on its Web site, Sybase is preparing to announce an ASE 15 Cluster Edition that will work across as many as 32 servers.

The clustering software will be an additional product from the company, and like the MySQL database itself will be available either under an open source license, the GNU General Public License or ...