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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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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

Neverfail

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

Neverfail

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

Neverfail

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

Cray

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

Hewlett-Packard Limited

Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center
sponsored by Schneider Electric
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how outdated monitoring practices can leave your data center vulnerable to threats. This resource describes these physical threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices and provides best practices for leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime
Posted: 13 Jul 2012 | Published: 13 Jul 2012

Schneider Electric

Banco de Chile improves its IT infrastructure with Oracle Exalogic
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
VIDEOCAST: Learn how one financial and banking organization easily deployed a complete hardware and software platform that combines everything enterprises love about mainframes and open systems without any of the drawbacks.
Posted: 20 Jun 2012 | Premiered: Jun 20, 2012

Oracle Corporation

Fabbrica Automatismi Apertura Cancelli Story
sponsored by SUSE
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how one company migrated from its legacy IBM i platform to Linux which reduced costs, improved performance and simplified system management processes. Discover how your organization can achieve similar benefits as well as improve response time and reduce workloads.
Posted: 19 Jun 2012 | Published: 19 Jun 2012

SUSE

Sparda Success Story
sponsored by SUSE
CASE STUDY: This case study explores the business challenges that drove one company to implement SUSE Linux on system z. Find out how they decided on this architecture and whether it is addressing concerns over flexibility, availability, and performance.
Posted: 18 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

SUSE

High Availability on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
sponsored by SUSE
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines various high availability scenarios for running SAP on SUSE Linux. Determine which one is right for your enterprise and obtain detailed advice for properly enabling it.
Posted: 13 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

SUSE

SAP on SUSE Linux Enterprise Simple Stack
sponsored by SUSE
WHITE PAPER: Because organizations depend on SAP applications to plan for the future, points of failure can have serious, long-term implications. This white paper offers detailed guidance to help you build and maintain a highly available SAP architecture based on the successful integration of SUSE Linux and x86-64 hardware.
Posted: 12 Jun 2012 | Published: 20 Dec 2011

SUSE

SAP on SUSE Linux Enterprise DRBD
sponsored by SUSE
WHITE PAPER: Maintaining high availability is a top priority for IT professionals responsible for running critical applications. This white paper discusses the prerequisites for a highly available SAP architecture and offers advice for successfully planning and executing your implementation.
Posted: 11 Jun 2012 | Published: 20 Dec 2011

SUSE

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing
sponsored by SUSE
WHITE PAPER: Discover how your organization can support high performance computing with the use of a Linux operating system. Learn more about interoperability and hybrid high performance computing, supported vs. non-supported Linux, and much more.
Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 07 Jun 2012

SUSE

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

Dell and Microsoft

Endress+Hauser maximises availability and resiliency with Linux on System z
sponsored by IBM
CASE STUDY: This case study explains how one company successfully navigated the disaster recovery planning process. Discover why they decided to implement Linux on System z and how virtualisation allowed them to cost-effectively scale their IT environment.
Posted: 13 Aug 2012 | Published: 08 Aug 2012

IBM

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

Hewlett-Packard Company

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

APC by Schneider Electric

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

Red Hat and HP

DreamWorks Animation Utilizes the Red Hat Portfolio to Build a Private Cloud
sponsored by Red Hat and HP
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover how one leading animation studio uses Linux to enable rapid and cost-efficient scalability of computing and resources for high-performance compute (HPC) workloads. Learn how your organization can reduce your data center footprint and enhance reliability by using this Linux platform.
Posted: 16 Jul 2012 | Published: 16 Jul 2012

Red Hat and HP

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to save on IT resources while supporting new and existing business applications with Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)'s high availability and scalability.
Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

Oracle Corporation

Eliminating End Users and Application Downtime
sponsored by Neverfail
WHITE PAPER: This essential resource examines critical gaps in the ability of platform-level virtualization technologies to protect mission-critical business applications in mixed physical and virtual environments. Read on to find out how to address these gaps and avoid costly downtime with affordable data protection and DR solutions.
Posted: 12 Jun 2012 | Published: 12 Jun 2012

Neverfail

Performance Management for IBM POWER
sponsored by ORSYP
WHITE PAPER: Discover a management tool that monitors virtualised infrastructure, diagnoses performance problems and minimises workloads. Read on to learn how your organisation can see benefits like minimised downtime, streamlined management and more.
Posted: 29 May 2012 | Published: 29 May 2012

ORSYP

Practical Options for Deploying IT Equipment in Small Server Rooms and Branch Offices
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: 18 May 2012 | Published: 18 May 2012

APC by Schneider Electric

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

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
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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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