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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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High Availability Reports
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Optimizing and Securing Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover the challenges of delivering virtualized applications and desktops and strategies to overcome them. Learn more about reducing complexity, enhancing security, remote access management and much more.
Posted: 15 May 2012 | Published: 15 May 2012

F5 Networks

FIVE REASONS TO STAY CURRENT WITH TERMINAL EMULATION
sponsored by Micro Focus
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover the top five reasons to stay current with terminal emulation. Discover how your organization can protect against downtime and make migrations much less expensive.
Posted: 15 May 2012 | Published: 15 May 2012

Micro Focus

HOST ACCESS EVOLUTIONCut Emulation Costs By Evolving Host Acess
sponsored by Micro Focus
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how host technology has evolved and how to take advantage of these changes. This essential white paper will help you pick the right products for your organization and understand your users’ needs.
Posted: 15 May 2012 | Published: 15 May 2012

Micro Focus

City of Inglewood
sponsored by Micro Focus
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover how one city migrated from their aging mainframe to a Windows platform. Learn how your organization can save on maintenance costs and increase operational efficiency by making a similar move.
Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 14 May 2012

Micro Focus

Micro Focus RUMBA makes the connection for REI
sponsored by Micro Focus
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover a solution to troublesome connectivity problems. This case study explores how REI provides its clients with a reliable connection.
Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 14 May 2012

Micro Focus

Ensure High Availability with Proactive Support Services
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover how your organisation can reduce downtime with the use of proactive support services. Ideal for virtualised and converged infrastructures, these services can ensure high availability with the use of proactive scans and platform revision management.  
Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 11 May 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

Faster, Simpler Infrastructure for Small and Mid-Size Data Centers
sponsored by Liebert Corporation
WEBCAST: Access this webcast to learn how your organization can support its expanding IT environment with new infrastructure approaches that are simple and economical to deploy, easy to manage, and highly efficient to operate. Discover ways to speed implementation, reduce CAPEX and much more.
Posted: 11 May 2012 | Premiered: 11 May 2012

Liebert Corporation

Proactive Support Services: Prevent Problems Before They Occur
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Discover how your organization can protect its expanding IT environment with effective support services. This white paper explores a proactive solution that can diagnose problems quickly to reduce downtime.
Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 11 May 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

A Better Option for Hardware and Software Support
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how your organization can reduce downtime with effective support services. Discover a system that provides hardware and software support and remote monitoring to diagnose and solve problems more quickly.
Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 11 May 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

Prevent Downtime with Proactive Support Services
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover the best ways to monitor your IT systems and prevent problems, like downtime, before they occur. Learn about support services that provide proactive care that allows you to resolve hardware and software issues more effectively.
Posted: 09 May 2012 | Published: 09 May 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

Through Hardware Innovation Comes Support Automation
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover effective support solutions for your complex data center. Learn to overcome the challenges related to supporting interconnected IT environments with the use of the right support tools.
Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

Hewlett-Packard Company

E-Guide: Exchange Server 2010 Backup and Recovery Tips and Tricks
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
EGUIDE: This expert e-guide explores the latest backup and recovery features of Exchange 2010. Find out how you can leverage high-availability and site resilience capabilities to simplify and streamline disaster recovery processes.
Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

Dell, Inc.

Quick Start Guide to Disaster Recovery
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
EBOOK: Virtualisation has made disaster recovery planning more important than ever before. This ebook presents key findings concerning the implications of a disruption and offers best practices for properly protecting your virtual environment.
Posted: 26 Apr 2012 | Published: 26 Apr 2012

VMware, Inc.

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 underscores the need for a highly available data center to support applications running on virtual machines. Access a sample server and processor architecture and obtain detailed instructions for enabling it.
Posted: 24 Apr 2012 | Published: 24 Apr 2012

Dell and Microsoft

E-Guide: Object-based File Systems Come of Age for HPC
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
EGUIDE: Object-based file systems offer performance improvements in HPC environments, but many companies are unsure which market options are worth evaluating. This expert e-guide examines several notable offerings and explains how they can eliminate I/O bottlenecks in HPC architectures.
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

Dell, Inc. and Intel

LBBW Asset Management Improves Fault-Tolerance and Scalability of Citrix® XenDesktop® VDI Deployment with Sanbolic® Melio™
sponsored by Sanbolic Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this case study, discover how you can prevent unexpected downtime and enable highly available and scalable virtual desktops. Find out how you can build a fault-tolerant infrastructure and reduce your storage requirements with a robust software suite.
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 | Published: 20 Apr 2012

Sanbolic Inc.

SAP Best Practices: Optimizing Mission Critical Systems in Microsoft Environments
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: View this webcast to learn how to leverage commodity processing hardware to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and optimize performance, scalability and availability when running SAP systems in Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server environments.
Posted: 20 Apr 2012 | Premiered: 20 Apr 2012

Microsoft

Brandbank uses Sanbolic’s Melio to Deliver High Availability and Improve Performance for Image File-Serving Service
sponsored by Sanbolic Inc.
CASE STUDY: This case study details how one company leveraged a dedicated software to gain simultaneous access to critical information, eliminating the need for redundant copies of data and realizing tremendous storage savings.
Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

Sanbolic Inc.

University of Illinois Chooses Sanbolic® Melio™ to Simplify Desktop Image Management and Enhance Citrix® PVS™ SQL database high availability
sponsored by Sanbolic Inc.
CASE STUDY: This case study describes how to leverage a software solution to gain highly available virtual desktops while eliminating the high storage costs and complexity involved in replicating redundant desktop images.
Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

Sanbolic Inc.

A Principled Technologies Configuration Guide Commissioned by Dell
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Organizations must ensure that their individual hardware and software components not only work properly on their own but can also integrate well with each other. This configuration guide takes the guesswork out of choosing data center infrastructure so that you can maintain high levels of availability in your virtual environment.
Posted: 17 Apr 2012 | Published: 17 Apr 2012

Dell, Inc. and Intel

How Dell Helps You Quickly Realize the Benefits of an Exchange Migration
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Many organizations have put off upgrades to Exchange 2010, despite an array of reasons - both well known and less obvious to IT pros - to migrate to this enhanced server version. This white paper describes the salient characteristics of Exchange 2010 and differentiates between three types of deployment models.
Posted: 12 Apr 2012 | Published: 12 Apr 2012

Dell, Inc. and Intel

ESG Whitepaper – VMware’s vSphere Storage Appliance: High Availability for Small IT Operations
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: While maintaining high availability is critical in every business to avoid downtime and keep systems running smoothly, it can be very costly. This white paper introduces a new, automated storage solution that offers a cost-effective alternative approach to ensuring high availability and business continuity.
Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2012

VMware, Inc.

E-Guide: Enhance Your DR Strategy With Virtual Desktops
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
EGUIDE: Discover how virtual desktops can enhance a virtualization disaster recovery strategy by providing increased replication and connectivity. Plus, take a look at a virtualization high availability checklist compiled exclusively by our editors at SearchServerVirtualization.com.
Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

Dell, Inc.

Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V: Enabling the Next Generation Virtualized Data Center
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This solution brief discusses how the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series can provide a fully virtualized storage infrastructure that delivers high availability, resiliency, flexibility, and scalability that is simple and cost-effective to deploy, manage and grow.
Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

Dell, Inc.

Dell PowerEdge R720 Servers Supported 1,000 Users With Room to Grow
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
TEST RESULTS: This white paper describes a recommended reference configuration designed to simplify virtualization deployment and prevent hardware failures that could result in costly downtime. Learn more about this architecture, its key components, and how it performed under various conditions.
Posted: 15 Mar 2012 | Published: 15 Mar 2012

Dell, Inc. and Intel
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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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