> If you want to create an AD FS farm and use SQL Server to store your configuration data, you can use SQL Server 2008 or higher. If you are using SQL Server as your AD FS configuration database, you ...

This article describes the architecture of Azure SQL Database that achieves availability through local redundancy, and high availability through zone redundancy.

The question has come up a couple times in my blog on high availability and redundancy of Database Availability Groups (DAGs) specific to “What happens to the Client Access Server (CAS) and Hub ...

Abstract: The recent performance improvements in commodity hardware have made commodity server-based storage a practical alternative to dedicated-storage appliances. Because of the low reliability of ...