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High Availability

ALSO CALLED: Highly Available Computing, Data Availability, HA, High-availability, and Availability
DEFINITION: In information technology, high availability refers to a system or component that is continuously operational for a desirably long length of time. Availability can be measured relative to "100% operational" or "never failing." A widely-held but difficult-to-achieve standard of availability  … 
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Rich Internet Applications or Business Intelligence - How Do I Choose?
sponsored by Actuate Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Rich Information Applications integrated with a performance management strategy helps high-performing organizations improve decision making at all levels by ensuring better operational performance and execution.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 21 Jul 2008
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File Serving Utility Provides Higher Performance, Lower Cost File Serving
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how HP's PolyServe File Serving Utility delivers scalable performance and capacity with high availability services at a fraction of the price of traditional NAS.
Posted: 19 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Scalable, Fault-tolerant NAS for Oracle Whitepaper
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: HP offers a scalable, modular, high performance NAS solution for Oracle 10g RAC and non RAC with no single point of failure. Using NAS storage for Oracle makes provisioning and managing storage much easier than using SAN storage.
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Oracle Label Security - Best Practices for Government and Defense Applications
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Oracle Label Security provides extensive and flexible label based access control (LBAC) capabilities to support the deployment of multi-level security (MLS) applications in government and defense environments.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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How to develop a desktop virtualization strategy.
sponsored by NetApp
WEBCAST: The next in the series of SearchWinIT webcasts, independent industry expert Brian Madden will discuss how you can incorporate the various desktop virtualization components into your environment today.
Posted: 11 Jul 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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z Cisco Catalyst 2955 Series Switches
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SERVICE LISTING: The Cisco Catalyst 2955 Series is an industrial-grade switch that provides Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for deployment in harsh environments.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Top 10 Reasons to Implement Automated Application Quality Management
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WHITE PAPER: This paper explores 10 reasons why companies should consider implementing Automated Application Quality Management -- a collection of processes and tools designed to enable predictable, measurable, and optimal application performance.
Posted: 25 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Data De-duplication Experts
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
WEBCAST: Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set that also includes conventional disk backup, tape, and encryption, all supported with common management tools.
Posted: 20 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Increasing the Value from Your Dedupe Solutions: Attune Systems Maestro File Manager and File Virtualization Improve ROI of Dedupe Solutions in Windows-Compatible Environments
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WHITE PAPER: This paper has described some real world benefits Attune customers have seen using the intelligent combination of the Maestro File Manger with leading deduplication storage solutions.
Posted: 20 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Sun Microsystems' Solutions for Virtualization across the Enterprise
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WHITE PAPER: Sun's customer-driven approach for how companies implement a virtual environment will enable customers to choose the right virtualization tool for the job yet still maintain cohesive management of a heterogeneous environment.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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HIGH AVAILABILITY DEFINITION (continued): …  for a system or product is known as "five 9s" (99.999 percent) availability.

Since a computer system or a network consists of many parts in which all parts usually need to be present in order for the whole to be operational, much planning for high availability centers around backup and failover processing and data storage and access. For storage, a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is one approach. A more recent approach is the storage … 
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