Increasing application availability is essential given the cost of downtime. And finding a way to provide higher application availability without drastically increasing hardware cost is a leading concern for IT shops. This white paper will outline the history of clustering solutions in the open systems markets and examine the advantages and disadvantages of some commonly used high availability strategies in today's IT environments.

Download this paper to get an understanding of:

• Failover and switchover technologies
• Common failover configurations
• Advanced cluster configurations

Lastly this paper will detail the Veritas Cluster Server from Symantec, which increases application availability in a cost-effective way. Learn how this approach differs from other solutions in the control of larger, more cost-effective clusters.

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