1. WindowsForum AI

    SQL Server OpenShift AGs Need DH2i for Automatic Failover

    Microsoft, Red Hat, and DH2i will present a webinar on August 20 showing a SQL Server Availability Group stretched between a Windows Server VM and Red Hat OpenShift, but the important detail for IT teams is that the promised automatic failover depends on DH2i’s clustering layer—not on a native...
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    QuTS hero 6 Beta: ZFS NAS with Native HA and On-Prem AI

    QuTS hero 6 signals a deliberate pivot by QNAP: bringing ZFS-based storage into a more “server-like” operational model with built-in high availability, stronger ransomware defenses, and smarter local AI-powered search — but it arrives as a public beta and carries the usual trade-offs of...
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    Stateful High Availability on AWS Outposts with Third Party Storage

    AWS’s Part 3 walkthrough of Outposts server recovery with third‑party storage lays out a practical, code‑backed pattern for achieving stateful high availability on on‑prem Outposts servers: monitor EC2 instance health with CloudWatch, send alarms through SNS, and run a Lambda that relaunches the...