In this episode Symon interviews Elden Christensen, Principal Program Manager Lead for Failover Clustering, to discuss the latest enhancements in the next version of Windows Server. Failover Clustering provides high-availability and disaster recovery for Hyper-V virtual machines, SQL databases and other roles. The interview with Elden begins at [04:30]: What were the main high-availability design goals for this release?How do rolling upgrades work?What are the new compute resiliency features?How has network resiliency improved?What is a node quarantine?How has storage resiliency improved?How does a DAS cluster work?How does storage replication work?What is the cloud witness?What are the improvements around diagnostics and logging?Where can people go to learn more about the next version of clustering? Windows Server Technical Preview Evaluation: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-vnext-technical-previewTechNet Forum: Windows Server Technical Preview Forum: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=WinServerPreviewFailover Clustering Team Blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/News: [00:25] TechEd Europe sessions are now available on demand through Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014[00:55] New courses are available on the Microsoft Virtual Academy Windows Server 2012 R2: Using IP Address Management (IPAM): https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/windows-server-2012-r2-using-ip-address-management-ipam-Service Management Automation (SMA) with the Windows Azure Pack: https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/service-management-automation-with-windows-azure-pack[01:55] Microsoft Azure releases a new Government Cloud: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/gov[02:30] Partner News: Parallels releases Windows Azure Pack APS Package enabling service providers to offer Windows Azure services based on their infrastructure by automating billing, pr