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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WHITE PAPER: Posted: 12 May 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Qumranet's Solid ICE is a fully integrated virtual desktop solution that provides the benefits of virtual desktops such as centralized management, maintenance and policy enforcement, while eliminating the drawbacks of existing solutions.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 10 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Explore the top 10 reasons you should get your software as a service. Learn how you can leverage key application, accelerate ROI and achieve global availability with an on-demand model.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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This white paper will provide a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2003
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The purpose of this white paper is to provide an introduction to iSeries high availability for companies that want to understand this technology and evaluate whether such a solution can become a cost-justifiable component of their backup.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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It is a fortunate change of events for the SMB-sized shop that the powerful business continuity technology of high availability is no longer reserved for the largest enterprises.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 08 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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This IDC white paper discusses how the current need for server virtualization, infrastructure consolidation and energy efficient technology requires significant changes to IT systems.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 06 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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This paper describes an evolutionary approach to an intelligent communications network ("SmartGridNet"), maximizing leverage of the existing asset base and minimizing capital and operations expenses.
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Customers in all markets are seeing demand for new levels of storage performance, flexibility, and scalability to cope with today's data intensive environments. This Resource Center highlights technologies that can help you achieve this.
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With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the uncontrollable forces that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. If your organization trusts and relies on digital information, it's imp...
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 … High Availability definition sponsored by SearchDataCenter.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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