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High Availability: Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two...; Full High Availability Definition >>

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Integrated Disaster Recovery for Transactional Applications and Data: In today's dynamic business environment, organizations of all sizes need to maintain access to critical applications and data even in the event of natural and man-made disasters. This is particularly acute for the database -driven (e.g. MS SQL, Oracle DB, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL) transactional applications and data that...; Tags: Application, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Databases, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2008-02-27
IT Manager Webcast: Delivering High Availability to Your Infrastructure (Level 100): Organizations put a lot of value on mission-critical servers and rely on them heavily to run their businesses. As a result, server downtime can be very costly. For every benefit and advantage brought to an organization by an IT solution, technology and business decision-makers should also think about how to...; Tags: Webcast, High Availability, Downtime, Server, Microsoft Corp.; Webcasts 2008-02-07
Altis Semiconductor Improves Operational Efficiency and Bolsters Strategic Development: Altis Semiconductor, formerly a production company of IBM, is a major player on the semiconductor market in Europe. The company wanted to implement an IT solution to support the company's objectives - management independence, market expansion, and commercial development. The challenge was to ensure 24/7 availability of critical management processes,...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Production, High Availability, Altis Semiconductor; Case studies 2008-02-01
High Availability for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 using array-based replication & host-based mirroring: This webinar demonstrates that, in a highly-available disaster recovery environment using either HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database mirroring, checkpoint duration is critical to managing the solution behavior and implementation of the best practices results in significant performance improvements up to 52%. ...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Microsoft SQL Server, High Availability, Mirroring, Microsoft Corp., Replication, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Webcasts 2008-01-31
TechNet Webcast: High Availability With Hyper-V (Level 300)1: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, is a hypervisor-based technology that provides a scalable, reliable, and highly available virtualization platform. It is part of the ongoing effort at Microsoft to provide their customers and partners with the best operating system platform for virtualization. The attendee...; Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, High Availability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Storage; Webcasts 2008-01-30

Ensuring True High Availability for Microsoft Exchange: If there is a "killer app," it's e-mail. Business communications rely heavily on e-mail, and an increasingly mobile base of users and clients continually lowers the tolerance for e-mail downtime. How can you ensure the high availability (HA) levels that users and executives demand? What can third-party tools offer, and...; Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server, High Availability, XOSoft, Microsoft Corp., Computer Associates International Inc.; Webcasts 2008-01-15
Warid Telecom Improves Performance and Availability With Help From TechAccess Pakistan: Lahore-based Warid Telecom began operations on May 23, 2005. Backed by the Abu Dhabi Group, one of the largest corporations in the Middle East and the single largest foreign investor in Pakistan, success came almost immediately to the telecommunications company. Warid Telecom wanted to utilize an inactive second server on...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, High Availability, Warid Telecom, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Case studies 2008-01-01
Microsoft High Availability Overview: High availability is a top priority for many business operations. From small, specialized businesses to global enterprises, competition requires more and more companies to service customers, partners, and computers around the clock. The increased reliance on server-based systems to power business means that those server services also need to keep...; Tags: High Availability, Server, Microsoft Corp.; White papers 2008-01-01
High Availability for SQL Server 2005 using array-based replication and host-based mirroring technologies: This white paper demonstrates that, in a highly-available disaster recovery environment using either HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database mirroring, checkpoint duration is critical to managing the solution behavior and implementation of the best practices results in significant performance improvements up to 52%. ...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft SQL Server, High Availability, Mirroring, Replication, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2008-01-01
WS_FTP Server (exe): Unrivaled Security: 256-bit AES transport encryption, SHA-512 file integrity, login authentication encryption, digital certificate management and strong password policies. Powerful Administrator Control: Define access to files with granular permissions by folder, user and group and set limitations on storage space, file count and bandwidth utilization. Trigger Communication and Workflows: Generate...; Tags: Ipswitch Inc., Digital Certificate, Clustering, High Availability, Digital Security, Servers, Security, Hardware; Software downloads 2007-12-20
High Availability, Virtualization, Scalability and Security: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise provides unprecedented levels of system uptime, the latest security advances, and the scalability to support the growth of mission-critical applications. It also provides a cost-effective way to realize the benefits of virtualization. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise is an optimal operating system for servers running applications such...; Tags: Security, Customer Service, Microsoft Windows Server, High Availability, Scalability, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Product Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Marketing; White papers 2007-11-13
High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Your NetBackup Environment: Veritas NetBackup from Symantec has been providing unparalleled data protection for enterprise backup and recovery environments for over a decade. NetBackup is a business critical application for most businesses, and more and more businesses are looking to make NetBackup highly available. The presenter of this webcast will explain why cluster...; Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., High Availability, VERITAS NetBackup, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware; Webcasts 2007-11-06
Taridium: Comms 1.1 - VoIP Provider Platform: Taridium's comms provider VoIP platform combines all the advantages of an open standards solution with the reliability of non-stop hardware and 7x24 monitoring. By combining open source tools and open standards with best of breed hardware and software, taridium can offer one of the best price to performance ratios in...; Tags: Open Standard, Performance, Platform, High Availability, Taridium, Comm, Performance Management, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking; White papers 2007-10-17
Building 24x7 iSCSI SANs: Many believe that building an iSCSI SAN means sacrificing performance and availability. But SAN reliability, whether it is iSCSI or Fibre Channel, depends on the overall system design and manufacturing quality - not the networking technology. In fact, not only are there no risk-related sacrifices required with iSCSI SANs,...; Tags: iSCSI, High Availability, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking; Webcasts 2007-10-16
VMware Infrastructure 3 and Stratus Continuous Availability: Going Beyond High Availability for Business-Critical Virtualization: The combination of VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) and Stratus Continuous Availability servers provides the most comprehensive solution for IT infrastructure availability in the industry. VMware VI3, encompassing VMware ESX Server and other components, is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing industry-standard IT environments through virtualization. Stratus...; Tags: Stratus Technologies, High Availability, VMware Inc., Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-10-01
Using VMware High Availability and VMotion With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Virtual Machines on Dell PowerEdge Servers: When running applications in a virtualized environment, such as VMware Infrastructure 3, there are new capabilities that are made possible by the virtualization layer. In some cases, it is these new capabilities that make the case for virtualization compelling enough for even performance intensive, mission critical applications like Microsoft Exchange...; Tags: Dell PowerEdge Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server, High Availability, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Dell PowerEdge, Virtual Machine, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-10-01
Ensuring Secure Trading With a High Availability Infrastructure: The German Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg (LBBW) is a general commercial bank operating on an international stage. It provides all of the services to be expected from a large, modern bank - including one very special, important and indispensable service: high availability. A flexible and integrated solution comprising Symantec software is enabling...; Tags: Bank, Symantec Corp., High Availability, File Servers, Security, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-09-19
Pillar SANs Optimize VMware Environments: IT shops are consolidating and virtualizing resources to reduce costs and to improve agility. VMware's Virtual Infrastructure enables IT to more fully utilize the capacity and computing power of the server and storage products they purchase, thereby fundamentally changing the computing landscape in forward-looking organizations. IT shops of all sizes...; Tags: Information Technology, Environment, SAN, High Availability, VMware Inc., IT Shop, Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-09-10
Comision Nacional de Proteccion Social en Salud Integrates Information and Achieves High Availability: The commission wanted to unify and integrate information into a single platform and Database. The challenge was to distribute credentials for health sector beneficiaries in a quick, effective, and safe way as well as guarantee the availability of reliable information online and in real time, avoiding loss and redundancy of...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Commission, High Availability, Health Care, Beneficiary, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Sales Force Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sales, Data Management; Case studies 2007-09-01
Delivering High Availability, Platform Flexibility, and a 50 Percentage Point Gain in Utilization With an Innovative Clustering From Symantec and ServerWare Corporation: To help keep current flowing to nearly 20 million power-hungry New Yorkers, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) and ServerWare Corporation, a Symantec business partner, developed an innovative active-active architecture for disaster recovery. It uses Symantec clustering and Solaris 10 Containers to meet recovery targets, boost utilization by a...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Clustering, High Availability, NYISO, Security; Case studies 2007-08-29