This is the second installment of a five-part series by contributing editor Greg Shields, which takes a close look at Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2008 operating system, commonly referred to as ...

Sun Microsystems was fond of saying, “the network is the computer.” Microsoft seems to have bought in at least partly to that notion — the two companies are now friends, or not enemies, or somewhere ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.