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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...
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- How do we measure high availability?
- How do we measure high availability?Downtime timing"In many cases, timing and duration are more important than total downtime/outage."This is so very, very true!I'd rather have my internet or computer be down at, say midnight when I'm sleeping than say around noon while I'm working on an important project.Of course, I...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- How do we measure high availability?
- Over the past 2 months, I've seen an increase in the number of end user inquiries regarding high availability and almost more importantly, how to measure high availability HA. HA means something different depending on whom you're talking with so it's worth a quick definition. I define HA as: ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Maximize Uptime, Performance and Savings with UNIX
- Learn about improving service, reducing cost and managing risk with Unix. More easily manage servers, better align IT and business operations, and reduce energy costs while improving processing flexibility and availability with a complete suite of management and high availability solutions Join this live...
- Webcasts 2009-06-03
- Inside SQL Server 2008 - Exploring High Availability and Scalability Enhancements
- SQL 2005 introduced High Availability and scalability enhancements, such as database mirroring and improved failover clustering from earlier versions. Microsoft is shooting for close to zero downtime with the launch of SQL 2008 by incorporating availability and recovery features that were previously only available in third-party solutions. These features include...
- White papers 2009-05-20
- Petrochemical Firm Achieves Savings, High Availability With Disaster Recovery Solution
- Honam Petrochemical Corporation HPC produces plastics, synthetics, and basic chemicals and, following mergers with two other companies, was in the process of integrating its various IT infrastructures. With several mail servers in different locations and an increasing volume of e-mail, HPC wanted to simplify management by consolidating its servers and...
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Ensuring High Availability With VMware vSphere
- VMware once again raises the bar for providing simple and cost-effective application high availability with VMware vSphere 4. Tune in to hear about VMware Fault Tolerance FT, a new feature in VMware vSphere that provides continuous availability to applications in the event of hardware failures. This webcast also covers enhancements...
- Webcasts 2009-04-27
- Oracle VM High Availability: Hands-On Guide to Implementing Guest VM HA
- This white paper focuses on best practices of the Oracle VM Guest VM High Availability HA design and implementation. It serves as a practical guide to help customers design the HA environment and experience the benefits of Oracle VM. Guest VM HA functionality provides a powerful, easy-to-manage solution for maximizing...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- TechNet Webcast: High Availability Basics With Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (Level 200)
- Virtualization is a hot topic on customers' minds. But what happens if one consolidate a number of servers into virtual machines, put them on a single host computer, and that computer fails? All the eggs are in one basket, so to speak, and users may not be able to access...
- Webcasts 2009-03-19
- Emerald Queen uses Neverfail for Exchange
- I encourage people to do their homework when choosing a high availability solution. If you know what your business needs, it goes a long way in making the best purchasing decision. There are a lot of vendors out there, but not all provide the functionality and flexibility your IT shop...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Veritas Cluster Server Technical Overview and Roadmap
- While server and application environments are becoming more complex, interconnected, and dynamic, IT organizations are under increasing pressure to maintain the same service levels with the same IT budget. The attendee will learn how Symantec's industry leading high availability products will help organizations achieve higher levels of availability and optimize...
- Webcasts 2009-03-03
- Continuous Cluster Replication and Direct Attached Storage: High Availability Without Breaking the Bank
- When Exchange Server 4.0 was introduced, internal drives (or, for the well-funded, direct attached storage) were widely used. When the author first started working with Exchange in the mid-1990s, many of the organization's Exchange Servers used 2GB internal drives; these servers provided file and print services, and also ran SMS....
- White papers 2009-03-02
- Delivering On-Demand Scalability and High Availability at an Affordable Price
- A Louisville, Kentucky based hosting partner, MaximumASP provides exclusively Microsoft Windows based Web hosting and managed IT services to over 2,500 customers in more than 60 countries, with over 50,000 domains with 2,700 servers. The company provides comprehensive network protection, automated server patching, and advanced server monitoring to customers. MaximumASP's...
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Achieving High Availability in a SAS Grid Environment
- With increasingly complex analytics, growing data volumes and tightening batch windows, businesses are facing an ever greater need for guaranteed uptime and continuity of services commonly referred to as high availability. At the heart of such a system is resilient infrastructure that provides the architecture for successfully running SAS applications...
- White papers 2009-02-27
- High Availability Choices for Exchange Server 2007: Continuous Cluster Replication or Single Copy Clustering
- Each year, more organizations are determining that e-mail is a mission-critical application that hosts an increasing share of intellectual property. With this reliance on e-mail services, the need for highly available systems where messaging services must be accessible at all times has become more apparent, and organizations are making significant...
- White papers 2009-02-16
- CA VMware Tech Brief
- The expansion of IT systems to support the growth of mission-critical business processes and services is fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the provision of access to them and their information in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed....
- White papers 2009-02-09
- TechNet Webcast: Virtualization Solutions for High Availability (Level 300)
- Before the virtualization of all these workloads, if one server failed, one only lost that workload for the time it took to recover. Now, if one server fails, potentially several critical workloads looses. How does this benefit the organization? The presenter of this webcast shows the server clustering support, configuration,...
- Webcasts 2009-02-06
- Universite Laval Ensures High Availability of Mission-Critical Applications and Enhances Reporting
- Universite Laval wanted to ensure high availability of the university's mission-critical PeopleSoft Enterprise financial applications, which must be available 19 hours per day, seven days a week and gain an easy-to-use and maintain middleware infrastructure - reducing IT requirements and costs for the university's limited number of IT staff members....
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Protect Your Data and Maintain High Availability for Your VMware Environment With Veritas NetBackup and Cluster Server for VMware ESX
- Organizations are using server virtualization to reduce costs and achieve greater flexibility; however, the risk of reduced data and application availability has slowed the implementation of production applications in virtual machines. Veritas Cluster Server for VMware is a comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery solution for the ESX platform, providing...
- Webcasts 2009-01-29
- Storage Foundation for Windows and High Availability 5.1
- The attendee will learn how Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for Windows SFW HA 5.1 helps provide maximum availability for mission critical Windows applications while reducing cost and complexity. The attendee will learn about the various sources of risk that expose the applications to downtime and how one...
- Webcasts 2008-11-19
- Auer Ensures High Availability and Performance With Advanced Application Server Platform
- Auer Media & Entertainment wanted to reduce system downtime by implementing an application server platform that is reliable and scalable and ensure service and support is readily available to the new solution for quick problem resolution. The challenge was to guarantee around-the-clock access to critical business applications and services. Auer...
- Case studies 2008-11-01
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