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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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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 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Backups \| High Availability \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

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 TOPICS: Database Management \| Database Management Software \| Database Security \| High Availability \| Microsoft Exchange \| SQL Server

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 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| High Availability \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Utility Computing \| Virtualization Security

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 TOPICS: Architectures \| Cloud Computing \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Server Virtualization \| Utility Computing \| Virtualization Security

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 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| SLA \| VMware

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 TOPICS: Disk Mirroring \| Fault Tolerance \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| RAID \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Media

Presentation Transcript: Data Warehousing Basics for SQL Server Analysis Services sponsored by Flowerfire, Inc. PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript of the "Data Warehousing Basics for SQL Server Analysis Services" 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: 25 Nov 2009 \| Published: 25 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Clustering \| Data Warehouses \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| SQL \| SQL Server \| Storage Capacity

VMware vSphere 4: The Best Platform for Building Cloud Infrastructures sponsored by Dell, Inc. BROCHURE: VMware vSphere™, the industry's first cloud operating system, leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services. Posted: 24 Nov 2009 \| Published: 24 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Server Virtualization \| VMware \| VMware ESX

Top 10 Virtualization Myths sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: It seems that there are a lot of myths floating around regarding virtualization technologies. This paper explores and subsequently debunks the top 10 myths about virtualization. Posted: 24 Nov 2009 \| Published: 24 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| High Availability \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| SOA \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Migration \| Virtualization Security

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Series: Availability & Disaster Recovery sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel TECHNICAL ARTICLE: With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of options for creating state-ofthe art strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for their databases. This article explains why upgrading to SQL Server 2008 may help IT sleep better at night. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Database Administration \| Database Management \| Databases \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| SQL Server

Connecting Virtual Desktop and Disaster Recovery sponsored by Forsythe WHITE PAPER: Connecting virtual desktop technology with the disaster recovery process has probably not been a major focus for organizations; however, integrating a disaster recovery plan for the virtual desktop is moving up organizational priority lists for a multitude of reasons. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Access Control \| Desktop Virtualization \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Network Analyzer Software \| Network Performance \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Scale Out Storage Architecture: Reaching for the Cloud sponsored by Forsythe WHITE PAPER: Organizations concerned about IT budgets, need to be prepared to discuss cloud storage in the near future. The reality is that there are already enterprises using cloud storage effectively. Is it the answer for your organization? It might be--and the intent of this paper is to provide definitions, considerations and insights. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Centers \| High Availability \| Private cloud computing \| Public cloud computing \| Scalability Testing \| Security \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices

High Availability in Virtual Environments: Featuring Xiotech’s TimeScale GeoRAID Software sponsored by Xiotech Corporation PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Virtualizing your servers enhances server consolidation and provides easier server management. It might also introduce new availability requirements for your applications. Your virtual environment must be able to quickly recover from physical server failures. This paper introduces SAN solutions that work with VMware to deliver high availability. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: High Availability \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Spending \| Storage Virtualization

Emprise™ 7000 Storage Family sponsored by Xiotech Corporation DATA SHEET: Xiotech's Emprise 7000 family of storage area network (SAN) solutions are virtual SAN systems that deliver maximum reliability, scalability, and value. Highlights include: high availability, modular scalability, and lowest TCO. Read this paper to learn more about the features and benefits of these solutions. Posted: 19 Nov 2009 \| Published: 19 Nov 2009 TOPICS: High Availability \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO \| Virtual Machine

Presentation Transcript: The Secret to Maximizing Virtualization ROI in the Dynamic Data Center sponsored by Akorri PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization. Posted: 19 Nov 2009 \| Published: 19 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| High Availability \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Server Virtualization \| Service Level Management \| Storage Capacity \| Systems Management

Serious About High Availability? Eliminate Storage-related Downtime, Not Just Hardware Failures sponsored by DataCore Software Corporation ANALYST BRIEF: The economic downturn is no time to compromise on data availability, especially when storage virtualization software has made it possible to eliminate costly, storage-related downtime without paying a premium. Posted: 19 Nov 2009 \| Published: 19 Nov 2009 TOPICS: High Availability \| Storage Replication \| Storage Replication Software \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Backups \| Virtual Tape Libraries

Deploying Oracle® Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on Sun Systems sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper describes an enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle™ Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running the Solaris™ Operating System and Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems. Posted: 16 Nov 2009 \| Published: 16 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence Software \| Business Performance Management \| Enterprise Applications Software \| High Availability \| NAS \| Oracle (Product) \| Server Hardware \| Storage Hardware \| Systems Implementation

Protecting and Enhancing SQL Server With Double-Take Availability sponsored by Double-Take Software WHITE PAPER: Double-Take Software provides organizations with a solution that offers distinct recovery and protection advantages over manual Microsoft SQL built-in replication capabilities: Double-Take Availability saves more data real-time and restores that data in a much faster manner. Posted: 16 Nov 2009 \| Published: 16 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Database Management \| Database Security \| Database Server Software \| Databases \| High Availability \| SQL \| SQL Server

Presentation Transcript: Mission Critical Computing In NextGen Data Centers sponsored by PC Connection in partnership with HP ThinClient PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript of the "Mission Critical Computing" webcast to learn about changing trends in the data center infrastructure. Discover tools to ensure high availability at a low cost to improve IT performance and find out more about innovations to data center operations to help you remain competitive. Posted: 13 Nov 2009 \| Published: 13 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| High Availability \| Network Performance \| Systems Management

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Software sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents. Posted: 13 Nov 2009 \| Published: 13 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Acquisition Hardware \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Storage \| Database Administration \| High Availability \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| LAN \| SAN

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 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Intelligence \| Business Processes \| Data Warehouses \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Server Management \| SQL \| SQL Server \| Storage Management

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 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Intelligence \| Business Processes \| Clustering \| Data Warehouses \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| SQL \| SQL Server \| Storage Capacity

Leveraging Virtualisation for a Competitive Edge Improve Application Availability and Resource Provisioning sponsored by Virtustream WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology and introduce you to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the calculator for any business investment - your TCO. Posted: 11 Nov 2009 \| Published: 11 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Applications Software \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| High Availability \| ROI \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO

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 TOPICS: Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Distributed Computing \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| NAS Software \| Network Management \| Networking \| Storage Hardware

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 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Clustering \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| Microsoft Office \| Virtualization Security

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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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