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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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VMware vSphere simplifies management of Cloud services for IT
sponsored by Dell and VMware
VIDEO: VMware vSphere enables IT management to support their virtualization and cloud computing initiatives with automated, intelligent processes such as automatic load balancing, auto deploy and more. Discover how vSphere can provide unprecedented scalability and uptime for mission-critical applications, along with comprehensive security.
Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Premiered: 08 Feb 2012

Dell and VMware

Podcast: Building High Availability Environments for Windows Server 2008 R2
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
PODCAST: As companies become more dependent on Web-based services, more and more of them are considering adding failover capabilities to their Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. This expert podcast explores key factors you will need to consider as you prepare to deploy Windows Server 2008 R2, including software add-ons, performance requirements, and more.
Posted: 22 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 22 Dec 2011

Dell and Microsoft

Building High Availability Environments for Windows Server 2008 R2
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
VIDEO: IT shops are increasingly considering failover capabilities to support critical Web-based services. This webcast looks at what factors you need to consider and tasks you must perform to successfully deploy Windows Server 2008 R2.
Posted: 22 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 22 Dec 2011

Dell and Microsoft

George Crump: Maximizing VM Benefits with Shared Storage
sponsored by Drobo
WEBCAST: Check out this webcast featuring storage expert George Crump to learn how shared storage can help maximize high availability in VM environments. You'll also learn about data protection in virtual environments, server virtualization for SMBs, and optimizing your SAN for virtualization. Access this webcast today to learn more.
Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 06 Dec 2011

Drobo

Getting Started with Active MQ
sponsored by FuseSource
WEBCAST: Forrester Research's 2011 Q2 Wave Report named FuseSource's enterprise service bus (ESB) offering Active MQ as its highest ranked open source ESB solution and placed it in the "Leader" category along with large, established vendors. View this webcast to get an overview and product demo of Active MQ.
Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 01 Dec 2011

FuseSource

High Availability and Load Balance
sponsored by Progress Software
WEBCAST: This webcast discusses the high availability and load balancing of data clusters. Learn how to maintain continuous availability in order to save on cost and time, eliminate testing, and achieve true zero-down time maintenance.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 28 Nov 2011

Progress Software

Product Demonstration:  Dell EqualLogic PS Series Demonstration for SQL Server Protection and Rapid Recovery
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: Join Dell for a one-hour live presentation and demonstration of the EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition. See how ASM/ME with Smart Copy functionality provides storage administrators comprehensive SQL Server database protection, rapid recovery and high availability.
Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Premiered: 27 Apr 2011

Dell, Inc.

Podcast: Disaster Recovery Strategies for VMware Environments
sponsored by Dell and VMware
PODCAST: In this podcast, expert Mike Laverick reviews the different disaster recovery options available for VMware infrastructures. His presentation covers VMware Site Recovery Manager, host-based replication technologies, stretching high-availability technologies across multiple sites, and scripting custom solutions using PowerCLI.
Posted: 05 Apr 2011 | Premiered: 05 Apr 2011

Dell and VMware

Disaster Recovery Strategies for VMware Environments
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WEBCAST: In this webcast, expert Mike Laverick reviews the different disaster recovery options available for VMware infrastructures. His presentation covers VMware Site Recovery Manager, host-based replication technologies, stretching high-availability technologies across multiple sites, and scripting custom solutions using PowerCLI.
Posted: 05 Apr 2011 | Premiered: 05 Apr 2011

Dell and VMware

Solving My Common SMB Business Problems Through Virtualization - Dell and VMware vSphere 4.0 for SMBs
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WEBCAST: SMBs everywhere are facing common business problems such as reducing IT operating costs, protecting valuable data, maintaining application availability, and cutting power consumption - just to name a few.  Access this webcast for a look at these specific problem and how virtualization can help overcome them.
Posted: 04 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 04 Mar 2011

Dell and VMware

Save Money and Protect Your Business Assets with VMware vSphere™ 4
sponsored by Dell and VMware
VIDEO: In this demo, you'll see how VMware vSphere™ 4 enables you to: slash capital and operational costs through consolidating servers, enhance staff productivity and business responsiveness, minimize downtime and recover quickly from unplanned outages, and easily secure, backup and recover your business critical application and data.
Posted: 16 Jun 2010 | Premiered: 16 Jun 2010

Dell and VMware

Podcast: Server Virtualization 101: Part 4 High Availability
sponsored by Dell and VMware
PODCAST: In this podcast, learn how to ensure high availability (HA) to meet end user needs. Discover how virtualization software helps ensure optimal HA and get tips to plan for your high availability requirements. Find out how to combine virtualization software with servers and planning time to reach high levels of availability.
Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 04 Dec 2009

Dell and VMware

Server Virtualization 101: Part 4 High Availability
sponsored by Dell and VMware
VIDEO: In this videocast, learn how to ensure high availability (HA) to meet end user needs. Discover how virtualization software helps ensure optimal HA and get tips to plan for your high availability requirements. Find out how to combine virtualization software with servers and planning time to reach high levels of availability.
Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 04 Dec 2009

Dell and VMware

Podcast: Server Virtualization 101: Part 3 The Many Applications of Virtualization
sponsored by Dell and VMware
PODCAST: This podcast explores several virtualization applications, and details 10 common use cases for virtualization and it can help your company improve their IT infrastructure. Discover how to enhance your disaster recovery and high availability plans without draining the IT budget.
Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 04 Dec 2009

Dell and VMware

Server Virtualization 101: Part 3 The Many Applications of Virtualization
sponsored by Dell and VMware
VIDEO: This videocast explores several virtualization applications, and details 10 common use cases for virtualization and it can help your company improve their IT infrastructure. Discover how to enhance your disaster recovery and high availability plans without draining the IT budget.
Posted: 03 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 03 Dec 2009

Dell and VMware

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

Dell and VMware

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

Dell and VMware

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

Dell and VMware

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

Dell and Microsoft

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: 20 Jun 2008

Quantum Corporation
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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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