Historically, the notion of high availability was considered to be a characteristic of only sophisticated, high-end IT environments deployed in the largest organizations. However, today's IT environments are entirely different.

Larger organizations have expanded their data centers to include multiple tiers of applications to accommodate a much broader set of internal and external customer requirements. Midsize organizations are also looking to provide increased availability among a much broader set of business needs and applications.

This IDC white paper outlines how organizations are addressing high availability requirements and highlights a solution that addresses these challenges by:

• Providing full data path protection
• Enhancing error correction capabilities
• Protecting against disk drive data loss
• Enabling local and remote array-based data replication
• And more