High Availability
Organizations today are more aware than ever of how their business can be immediately impacted by the interruption of access to critical applications and data.
However, traditional data access solutions implemented by many large organizations to provide near-continuous uptime and access to data often exceed ever diminishing budgets due to their complexity and sophistication, and can leave small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in particular exposed to catastrophic outages and data loss.
High Availability (HA) is a term used to describe the system design protocol and associated implementation that ensures operational continuity during a given measurement period. It can be quantified in percentages approaching 100%, which represents the ideal: total availability and complete access to all data and resources at all times. Typically numbers that represent close to “five nines” availability (99.999% available) are the most sought-after.
A High Availability configuration of storage appliances can be implemented in storage area networks (SANs) to provide continuous operation in the face of a wide variety of threats and potential disasters. Thanks to StorTrends iTX data storage software, High Availability is now more accessible than ever to SMB users - without terrific investments in equipment, time and energy.