Regardless of computing environment, workload, or OS, availability is an essential part of operational success. Outages, system or application failures, and unplanned downtime are simply not acceptable for today’s pace of business in which even 10 minutes of inoperability translates to substantial data loss.
What organizations are beginning to realize, however, is that even traditional options for high availability have limits. The continuous operational efficiency required to capitalize on digital transformation should not monopolize an organization’s financial or personnel resources with endless testing and retesting of availability.
