We would like to acknowledge the following partners:

• F5 (http://www.f5.com) for providing hardware load balancers and support.
  
  
• Hewlett-Packard Development Company (http://www.hp.com/go/clxeva) for providing the geographically dispersed cluster solution.
  
  
• Network Equipment Technologies (www.net.com) for providing gateways, Survivable Branch Appliances, and support.
  
  
• Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) for providing firewalls.
  
  

The following links provide more information about some of the topics in this section:

• For details about Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering, see the "Getting Started" section of "Failover Clustering" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=208305.
  
  
• For details about the Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Configuration Program, see the "Configuration Program" section of "Failover Clustering" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=208306.
  
  
• For details about SQL Server Always On partners, see "SQL Server Always on Storage Solution Partners" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=208307.