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ALSO CALLED: Highly Available Computing, Data Availability, HA, High-availability, 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 for a system or product is known as "five 9s" (99.999 percent) availability.Since a computer system or a network  … 
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7 Minute Presentation: Data Protection Using Deduplication
sponsored by Dell | EMC
WEBCAST: Learn the basics of data protection using deduplication in less than 10 minutes.
Posted: 01 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 01 Dec 2009


A Simpler Approach to SharePoint High Availability
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
WEBCAST: Protecting SharePoint via traditional methods can be difficult because of its complex implementation architecture, the SharePoint application server and the back-end SQL database server. Attend this webinar to learn about a simplified, cost-effective approach to SharePoint high availability using Marathon's everRun high availability software.
Posted: 01 Dec 2009 | Premieres: 01 Dec 2009


Podcast: Server Virtualization 101 Part 1 Server Virtualization Overview
sponsored by Dell and VMware
PODCAST: In this podcast, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization.
Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 25 Nov 2009


Server Virtualization 101 Part 1 Server Virtualization Overview
sponsored by Dell and VMware
VIDEO: In this videocast, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization.
Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 25 Nov 2009


Cost Effective - High Impact Business Solutions with Dell & VMware vSphere
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
PODCAST: This podcast discusses how virtualization has gone beyond data center consolidation to become a key strategic driver for maximizing IT cost savings while enabling organizations to deliver solutions to customers in a timely manner and within SLA requirements.
Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 25 Nov 2009


RAID FAQ
sponsored by Nexsan Technologies
PODCAST: Twenty years old, RAID has become a standard and transparent feature. What is RAID, and how does this technology fit into the storage landscape? This expert FAQ podcast answers common questions about RAID, explores the different levels of this technology, and overviews the implementation stages and obstacles.
Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 25 Nov 2009


Podcast: Data Warehousing Basics for SQL Server Analysis Services
sponsored by Flowerfire, Inc.
PODCAST: In this expert podcast, learn how to build your data warehouse for your SQL Server environment. Discover the necessary steps involved and learn about major concepts, including relational data warehousing and supported SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) storage formats.
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 13 Nov 2009


Data Warehousing Basics for SQL Server Analysis Services
sponsored by Flowerfire, Inc.
WEBCAST: In this expert webcast, learn how to build your data warehouse for your SQL Server environment. Discover the necessary steps involved and learn about major concepts, including relational data warehousing and supported SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) storage formats.
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 13 Nov 2009


Clustered NAS emerges to address high-performance needs: Expert Podcast
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
PODCAST: Traditionally, NAS systems have had limitations in throughput, connectivity, reliability and scalability. Today, a new generation of high-performance NAS is making high-availability for NAS a reality. In this expert podcast, find out about the latest trends in clustered NAS and what it means for storage pros facing increasing data storage growth.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2009


Podcast: Build Effective and Highly Available Disaster Recovery Solutions Using Microsoft Virtualization
sponsored by Microsoft
PODCAST: Does your organization have a reliable and cost-effective site recovery system? This podcast explores how site recovery tools along with virtualization enables IT pros to deliver secure application and data availability, implement site-wide disaster recovery and automate fail-over and fail back.
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 09 Nov 2009


Maximizing Enterprise Backup and Dedupe Performance for Greater ROI
sponsored by FalconStor Software
WEBCAST: Disk-based backup systems fundamentally change the way we do backup and recovery. But the key is to treat disk as disk and not as tape. Solutions need to recognize the intelligent features of disk and take advantage of those features. This webcast explores how to leverage the advantages of disk for best possible backup performance and maximum ROI.
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 04 Nov 2009


Top points to achieving a fast ROI in Enterprise Backup and DR with Symantec, FalconStor and Hitachi Data Systems
sponsored by FalconStor Software
PODCAST: Disk-based backup systems fundamentally change the way we do backup and recovery. But the key is to treat disk as disk and not as tape. Solutions need to recognize the intelligent features of disk and take advantage of those features. This podcast explores how to leverage the advantages of disk for best possible backup performance and maximum ROI.
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 04 Nov 2009


Deploying a BackUP system that won't break IT's Back.
sponsored by SonicWALL
WEBCAST: SonicWALL's award-winning solutions for the enterprise, distributed enterprise and SMB include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology.
Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 03 Nov 2009


Build Effective and Highly Available Disaster Recovery Solutions Using Microsoft Virtualization
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: Does your organization have a reliable and cost-effective site recovery system? This webcast explores how site recovery tools along with virtualization enables IT pros to deliver secure application and data availability, implement site-wide disaster recovery and automate fail-over and fail back.
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 21 Oct 2009


Get More Virtual: Protecting Microsoft Applications with Dell and VMware vSphere 4
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn how to ensure application security and availability in your VMware environment. Discover how to provide quick recovery of applications and how to use automation for server application protection.
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 20 Oct 2009


Virtualize and Fortify XenApp for Lower Costs & Higher SLAs
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
WEBCAST: This webinar will discuss the benefits of virtualizing Citrix XenServer as well as show how fortifying XenApp and XenServer with Marathon Technologies' everRun software will give you the confidence to increase your SLAs for your most critical XenApp deployments and protect your Citrix License Server and Data Store from downtime.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 10 Sep 2009


Oracle Optimized Warehouse Solutions for Sun
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
VIDEO: Leveraging vast engineering and field experience architecting and implementing data warehouses with the Oracle Database, Sun created a set of data warehouse solutions to help IT managers quickly select a configuration, thus reducing the risk and deployment times for data warehouse solutions.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 09 Sep 2009


Meeting the Growing Need for Real-Time Data Movement in the Enterprise
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn the latest demands for data movement and replication within the enterprise. Sybase will also feature the new release of Replication Server, designed to address the growing needs of guaranteed data movement, with unprecedented performance for real-time data delivery even within heterogeneous data environments.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 03 Sep 2009


Right-sizing Your Storage Infrastructure with Tiered Storage
sponsored by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
PODCAST: This podcast will define tiered storage and explain how tiered storage can drive efficiency in your IT operations. Listen to this podcast to find out what you should consider before implementing a tiered storage solution.
Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 25 Aug 2009


What's new in VMware vSphere?
sponsored by Dell and VMware
VIDEO: Are you wondering about VMware's latest ESX product? Watch this interview with Eric Henderson, Director of Technical Services for the IT consulting firm New Age Technologies as he discusses VMWare's vSphere.
Posted: 19 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 19 Aug 2009


A Look at Hosted Exchange and Hosted Email
sponsored by USA.NET, Inc.
WEBCAST: Nowadays, more and more IT shops are considering hosted Exchange services rather than running their mail server locally.They need to decide whether or not it is right for their company. Take a deeper look at hosted Exchange and hybrid models in this webcast.
Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 07 Aug 2009


Hyper-V workarounds: How to ensure high availability
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
VIDEO: High availability (HA) for hypervisors is vital to limit unplanned downtime, making it critical to discern which technology works best for your virtual environment. This videocast compares popular hypervisor methods used to ensure high availability.
Posted: 14 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 14 Jul 2009


Priceline.com Capitalizes on Lean Economic Times
sponsored by 3PAR
VIDEO: Watch this videocast to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times.
Posted: 27 May 2009 | Premiered: 27 May 2009


Top Hyper-V Deployment Scenarios
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
VIDEO: In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity.
Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Premiered: 20 Mar 2009


Podcast: Top Hyper-V Deployment Scenarios
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
PODCAST: In this podcast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity.
Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Premiered: 20 Mar 2009

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HIGH AVAILABILITY DEFINITION (continued): …  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 area network (SAN).Some availability experts emphasize that, for any system to be highly available, the parts of a system should be well-designed and thoroughly tested before they are used. For example, a new application program that has not been thoroughly tested … 
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