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High Availability

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ALSO CALLED: Highly Available Computing, Data Availability, HA, High-availability, and 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.

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Recent Vendor Reports on High Availability
Six Years after 9/11, Most Firms Are Not Ready for Another Disaster
sponsored by Compellent
WHITE PAPER: Despite the devastating disasters and disruptions as 9/11, the European floods of 2005, and Hurricane Katrina, there is still significant room for improvement when it comes to enterprise disaster recovery preparedness.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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"Hurricane-Proof" Data Protection
sponsored by Compellent
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the construction company created seamless access between two locations with a proven ability to run off the secondary site for any period of time during an emergency--all while simplifying storage administration.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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ISSU: A Planned Upgrade Tool
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the selection of an ISSU design, which requires a comprehensive approach that considers various permutations of redundant and non-redundant router architectures.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008
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Harnessing the Power of an Enterprise IT Dashboard: Managing IT from a "Single Pane of Glass"
sponsored by uptime software inc.
WHITE PAPER: Discover how to manage the entire IT environment from an IT Dashboard that acts as a 'single Pane of Glass' to deliver highly valuable and easy-to-use information from both physical and virtual environments.
Posted: 24 Nov 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2008
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Architecting the Integrated Platform: Deploying Multi-Technology, Multi-Vendor Communications Platforms
sponsored by Enea
WHITE PAPER: This paper defines a multi-vendor, multi-technology platform architecture that can significantly reduce the time, cost, and effort of deploying integrated network equipment.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Humidification Stratiegies for Data Centers and Network Rooms
sponsored by APC
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the nature of humidity, its effects and its management in computer rooms and data centers.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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VMware White Paper: Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMware Infrastructure for rapid, reliable and cost-effective Disaster Recovery
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: VMware Infrastructure transforms disaster recovery by providing you fast, reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery. Why suffer from the slow, expensive and unreliable problems associated with traditional disaster recovery solution?
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Concentric Hosted Exchange Whitepaper
sponsored by Concentric
WHITE PAPER: Concentric Hosted Exchange is a fast, reliable and affordable solution for email, calendaring, collaboration, and mobility based on Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Microsoft Outlook® 2007.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Achieving PCI Compliance without Appliance Sprawl: Securing Web Applications and Databases with Crossbeam Solutions
sponsored by Crossbeam Systems
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about the many benefits of Crossbeam Solutions, including how it helps customers consolidate anywhere from 20 to 50 separate appliances into one highly available, scalable system.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Sharepoint E-zine Vol.4: Balancing SharePoint Governance
sponsored by SearchWinIT
EZINE: SharePoint has built-in features that allow site owners to create site maps without any custom coding at all.
Posted: 18 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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Microsoft Windows Runs Best on Vmware
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: VMware virtualization solutions offer a better way to run Windows, delivering improvements in reliability, availability and manageability for your Microsoft Windows infrastructure.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 11 Nov 2008
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Transforming the Economics of Data Warehousing with Cloud Computing
sponsored by Vertica Systems
WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing is ushering in a new era of analytic data management for business intelligence (BI) by enabling organizations to analyze terabytes of data faster and more economically than ever before.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Published: 12 Nov 2008
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Always Be Open for Business: iSeminar
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WEBCAST: This internet seminar explores how mid-sized organizations can affordably attain business continuity by creating a data infrastructure that is always secure, available and accessible, despite potentially disruptive circumstances.
Posted: 06 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Changing the SQL Landscape through Consolidation Podcast
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
PODCAST: Discover an IT consolidation platform that effectively runs applications such as Oracle and SAP.
Posted: 05 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 05 Nov 2008
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Cisco Storage Media Encryption: Meeting the Security Challenge
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
BROCHURE: This white paper is an introduction to Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME), a heterogeneous, standards-based encryption solution for data at rest with comprehensive built-in key-management features.
Posted: 04 Nov 2008 | Published: 04 Nov 2008
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The Benefits of Integrating the Virtualization Platform with the Shared Storage Backend
sponsored by Citrix
DATA SHEET: Read this paper to learn how integrating platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization's full benefits.
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 31 Oct 2008
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ScaleOut StateServer v4 for Linux or Windows -- Distributed Caching for Server Farms and Grids
sponsored by ScaleOut Software
TRIAL SOFTWARE: Download ScaleOut Software's products free for a 30 day period. ScaleOut StateServer enables organizations to deliver scalable performance and high availability for Java Web and grid computing applications running on Linux or Solaris.
Posted: 29 Oct 2008 | Published: 09 Sep 2008
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Best Practice Guidelines for SAP Solutions on VMware® Infrastructure
sponsored by VMware and Intel
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Published: 24 Oct 2008
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Sharepoint E-zine Vol.3: Using SharePoint's InfoPath feature to generate forms
sponsored by SearchWinIT
EZINE: This guide explains planning global enterprise SharePoint deployments, creating custom global search scopes in SharePoint and top tips for harnessing Microsoft SharePoint governance.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Published: 23 Oct 2008
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Data Center LAN Connectivity Guide
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This document introduces the issues related to changing data center needs and presents design considerations and recommendations for data center LANs.
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 | Published: 21 Oct 2008
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Six Key Problems in the Virtualized Data Center and Tips to Solve Them
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization of servers is the strongest trend in today's data center. Boiling down racks of servers into smaller, cheaper, and more efficient virtual machine farms is a key direction.
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 | Published: 21 Oct 2008
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Enabling Carrier-class Communications with EX Switches
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains why a high-performance, highly available and secure network is essential for supporting a wide array of traffic types and a diverse user community.
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 | Published: 21 Oct 2008
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Disaster Strikes! Is Your Business Ready? Disaster Preparedness for Mid-Sized Firms
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This report explores common minor and major disaster scenarios, shows that they are far likelier than most people think, and explains how they can affect a business. It also clarifies what true disaster recovery means.
Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Published: 18 Oct 2008
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Citrix Virtualization Center
sponsored by Citrix
WEBCAST: Virtualization promises to play an increasingly important role across all aspects of application delivery. This center provides information on how the Citrix application delivery solution offers both client- and server-side application virtualization.
Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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HP Integrity Systems: Family Guide
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: The HP Adaptive Infrastructure portfolio creates the foundation for delivering better business outcomes by enabling you to reduce operational costs, accelerate speed of IT change, and deliver higher quality of service to the business.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008
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HP Virtual Server Environment Capitalizes on Workload Management Integration
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization can significantly improve the utilization of computing resources. In this white paper learn how virtualization can assign unused resources to workloads in other parts of an organization that can benefit from them.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Published: 16 Oct 2008
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HIGH AVAILABILITY DEFINITION (continued): …  a computer system or a network 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 … 
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