When a critical Windows application or cluster goes down, can you quickly failover to a geographically redundant server without losing data or causing further downtime? Many buyers of "high availability" replication solutions find that replication is easy, but that failover is a complex and risky process, often leading to lengthy outages and data loss. Your replication system may be vulnerable to common flaws that are hard to detect until it's too late.

This report examines five fatal flaws of traditional approaches to data replication and recommends best practices for IT administrators to help ensure successful failovers and continuous application availability. It introduces a solution designed to ensure a smooth failover and failback process regardless of the complexity of a Microsoft Exchange or other application environment.