Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas.

Clustering software for Windows from Microsoft. It provides rudimentary load balancing and two-node failover, which allows a second server to take over if the first one fails. Cluster Server was ...

Microsoft's clustering technology does automatic failover of a server to a secondary site in case of a problem with that server, and the latest version of FalconStor's NSS detects the failover and ...

BakBone's NetVault 7.3 adds improved support for file systems and a number of applications, notably Exchange and SQL Server, running on Microsoft Windows Cluster Server 2003. Support for Oracle ...