Great Availability of Resources

   

    High availability protects companies from lost revenue when access to their data resources and critical business applications is disrupted. What kind of outage is your business trying to protect itself against? Planned outages such as backup windows, maintenance, and unplanned outages should be considered when planning high availability in the cloud.

    Planned outages are the primary reason to have high availability in the cloud. These outages are needed to take systems or data offline to facilitate maintenance tasks, such as the deployment of new hardware or software upgrades. As your business grows so does the importance of uptime and, as a result, your maintenance windows have to shrink. How many hours can your systems be offline before they impact your business? The impact of planned outages can be minimized using a high availability solution.

    Upgrades and fixes can be applied to the backup server while the primary server is running. The workload can then be switched to the backup server and fixes can be applied to the original primary server. After the upgrade has finished, production can be switched back to the original server.

    Unplanned outages bring risks that can be mitigated by deploying a high availability solution. While cloud platforms are unlikely to fail, other factors can cause disruptive unplanned outages. Human error cannot be engineered out of any system, unfortunately. Procedures are not always followed and poor communication cause misunderstanding.

    The resulting outages to operating systems, middleware, or databases can be embarrassing and costly. With high availability infrastructure, your business can continue to operate on a failover server while the problem is diagnosed and resolved.


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