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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 … Definition continues below.
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Making the Right Storage Choices: 10 Must-Ask Questions sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: This brief guide will arm you with ten must ask questions you need to consider when reviewing your storage strategy. Posted: 03 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Hardware \| High Availability \| Scalability Testing \| Software \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems \| Strategic Planning \| Vendor Selection \| Vendors

Cray Sonexion™ Data Storage System sponsored by Cray WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the features and benefits of the Cray Sonexion Lustre appliance approach while comparing and contrasting it to traditional component-based approaches. Posted: 25 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| High Performance Parallel Interface \| RAID \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems

Enterprise Data and the Cost of Downtime sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: Uncover the results of a survey to see what approaches your peers take to achieve high availability and what challenges are driving increased downtime. Posted: 23 Apr 2013 \| Published: 17 Jul 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| High Availability

Evaluator Group - IBM Storwize Family: Scaling Capabilities and Value Jan 2013 sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: IT needs from storage systems continue to increase – this white paper discusses IBMs storwize family single architecture, its benefits and how it's applied across several market segments as independent storage systems. Posted: 11 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Caching \| Data Centers \| Data Compression \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| RAID \| Storage Architectures \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems

Business Value of DB2 10 for z/OS Query Optimization sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This crucial paper discusses the newest enhancements for IBM's DB2 mainframe environment that provides high levels of workload performance while improving efficiency and removing limitations. Read on to learn how you can increase availability and overall mainframe efficiency. Posted: 01 Apr 2013 \| Published: 01 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Mainframe Operating Systems \| Mainframe Server Hardware \| Workload Automation

Eliminating Downtime Helps Alexandria Police Department Keep the Peace sponsored by Neverfail WHITE PAPER: Access this two-page case study to learn how the Alexandria, VA Police Department eliminated downtime in order to maintain constant communication between the officers and dispatchers. Posted: 08 Mar 2013 \| Published: 07 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| SQL Server

Business Continuity: Choosing the Right Technology Solution sponsored by Neverfail WHITE PAPER: Without the highest quality data protection, availability and DR, your organization's chance at continuity after a crisis are low. In this paper about choosing the right technology for your business continuity needs, learn about your current options, how to assess solutions, criteria to consider and more! Posted: 07 Mar 2013 \| Published: 07 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Business Continuation Services \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability

Five Best Practices for VMware Administrators: Microsoft Exchange on VMware PDF sponsored by Veeam Software WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces 5 essential considerations to keep in mind when running Microsoft Exchange in a vSphere-based environment. Posted: 05 Mar 2013 \| Published: 05 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Data Center Management \| High Availability \| Microsoft Exchange \| Server Virtualization \| VMware

Data Consolidation and Distribution with SharePlex for Oracle sponsored by Quest Software, now a part of Dell WHITE PAPER: Discover the easiest way to improve data availability and end user satisfaction in this free tech brief. You'll see how database replication dramatically simplifies data consolidation and distribution. Read the tech brief today. Posted: 11 Feb 2013 \| Published: 11 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Database Management \| Database Replication Software \| High Availability \| Oracle (Product)

Strategies to Solve and Optimize Management of Multi-tiered Business Services sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights the current challenges facing data center administrators managing multi-tier business services and offers a solution for those challenges. Posted: 11 Feb 2013 \| Published: 30 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Enterprise Systems \| High Availability \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management

Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) has become invaluable for Oracle customers that need higher availability, better performance, scalability and resilience, lower Oracle TCO, or a flexible, low-cost foundation for a private cloud. Read this white paper to get a technical overview of the important features and functionality in Oracle RAC 11g. Posted: 11 Feb 2013 \| Published: 30 Nov 2010 TOPICS: Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Database Administration \| Database Management \| Database Management Software \| High Availability \| Oracle (Product) \| Private cloud computing \| Relational Database Management Software

Making the Virtual Infrastructure Non-stop sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the fact that in addition to detecting VM failures, availability solutions need to focus on detecting and mitigating application failures. The paper goes on to highlight a host of solutions designed for improving the availability of important applications. Posted: 11 Feb 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Clustering \| Data Center Management \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Server Virtualization \| Virtual Machine

Accelerate Virtualization of Your Business-Critical Applications Confidently with Symantec sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers virtualization solutions for IT managers who have yet to virtualize business-critical applications. The paper reviews perceived obstacles for IT managers to overcome and offers a portfolio of detailed solutions for IT managers' pain points when virtualizing their infrastructure. Posted: 06 Feb 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backup for Virtualized Servers \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Server Consolidation \| Virtual Machine \| VMware

Storage Data Protection Strategies In Today’s Data Centre sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: This resource outlines the challenges of data protection and how to overcome them. Read on to learn effective protection methods, how to restore after an event, overcome an event and Posted: 10 Dec 2012 \| Published: 10 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| High Availability

IDC White Paper: Time for Change: Optimising Data Centre Infrastructure with Technology Refresh sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: This IDC study examines seven enterprises that recently initiated a technology refresh of their UNIX server storage and operating environment. Inside, the specific business values associated with partnering with Oracle to support consolidation efforts are explored. Posted: 10 Dec 2012 \| Published: 10 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Downtime \| High Availability \| Operating Systems \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| UNIX

Through Hardware Innovation Comes Support Automation sponsored by HP India WHITE PAPER: How can you stay ahead of the pack and address increasingly complex data center and IT operations without significantly impacting your IT budget? This informative white paper shows you how. Posted: 13 Nov 2012 \| Published: 13 Nov 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| High Availability \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

Reducing the Cost of Planned Maintenance: How Neverfail helps keep downtime to a minimum sponsored by Neverfail WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how to reduce the cost of planned maintenance in your data center. Discover strategies and solutions that reduce planned and unplanned downtime. Posted: 30 Oct 2012 \| Published: 28 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Downtime \| High Availability \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Services

Continuous Availability Suite: Neverfail Solution Architecture sponsored by Neverfail WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover a tool that provides high availability and disaster recovery through continuous data protection without the need for specialized hardware. Posted: 30 Oct 2012 \| Published: 29 Jun 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Hardware \| High Availability \| Software

Eliminating End User and Application Downtime: Protecting Mission-Critical Multi-Tier Business Applications with Neverfail and Virtualization sponsored by Neverfail WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover a more complete, consistent and cost-effective availability solution for mission-critical business applications. Posted: 26 Oct 2012 \| Published: 31 Jul 2012 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Management

Enabling Scientific Breakthroughs at the Petascale sponsored by Cray WHITE PAPER: This white paper dives into the high-performance computing, scalable parallel file system the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications deployed to meet the staggering requirements of one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Posted: 08 Oct 2012 \| Published: 08 Oct 2012 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Storage \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

HP Business Continuity Services: Elevate business and IT continuity while reducing risk and cost sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how continuity services can help your organisation prevent business interruptions. Read on to see how services like continuity strategy analysis, business continuity planning and others can help your business. Posted: 15 Aug 2012 \| Published: 29 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| High Availability \| Systems Management

Dell PowerEdge R515 servers delivered high-availability performance for 500+ users with plenty of room for growth sponsored by Dell and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This test report details the need for high availability data center infrastructure to support applications running on virtual machines. Learn more about a sample configuration and access instructions on implementing it. Posted: 25 Sep 2012 \| Published: 25 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| High Availability \| Server Consolidation \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization

The Growing Importance of IT Support Services sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes a closer look at the support services marketplace and focuses on one key player that is receiving a lot of attention from IT professionals. Discover emerging trends shaping the landscape for this technology and determine whether your business could benefit from establishing a contract with this provider. Posted: 27 Jul 2012 \| Published: 01 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Help Desk Management \| Help Desk Management Services \| Help Desk Software \| Help Desks \| High Availability \| IT Management

Deploying IT Equipment in Small Server Rooms: Common Problems Addressed sponsored by APC by Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover practical data center design solutions. From power and cooling to physical security, this resource provides a comprehensive overview of valuable strategies to decrease downtime. Posted: 27 Jul 2012 \| Published: 27 Jul 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Cooling \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Downtime \| Green Data Center \| High Availability \| Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

High Availability Add-On for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant Servers sponsored by Red Hat and HP WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a Linux architecture designed to help companies maximize availability. Learn more about the technical components of this configuration and how you can ensure that it is successfully implemented. Posted: 18 Jul 2012 \| Published: 01 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Linux \| Linux Desktop Environment \| Linux Server Hardware \| Server Hardware

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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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