IT professionals have several options to choose from for ensuring high availability in their Windows environments. With new features included in the latest versions of Microsoft Windows Server, those options continue to grow and change.

In this short podcast, technical writer and general Windows guru Brien M. Posey calls in to discuss some of these options, with a focus on cluster and grid computing. Here you'll learn the basic differences between the two, with details on when to use them. You'll also get the skinny on some of the key new high availability features included with both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.