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CEO's Connection
And The Real Cause of Downtime Is... Us
by Rob Gardos, CEO
Billions of dollars are spent on redundancy with the ultimate objective of reducing downtime. Based on the action of some |
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enterprises, it seems that achieving the coveted 5 nines of availability (or 5 minutes of downtime a year) is merely a function of purchasing standby equipment, failover gear for the standby equipment and of course backup hardware for the failover gear. Then, how can so many layers of redundancy possibly fail? The problem is that human error, not hardware failure, is the most likely cause of downtime. more >> |
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Featured Article
Mitigate Errors Through Automation
by Matthew Zito, Chief Scientist
As business requirements for uptime have dramatically increased, clustering technologies historically have been the key to providing ever-increasing 9s of availability, and companies have rolled have them out en masse. |
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But today, there are numerous different types of high-availability solutions, each providing a piece to the overall puzzle. more >> |
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Ask the Expert - Mr. Database
by Eric Gross, DBA
This month's question:
Dear Mr. Database:
My boss is always on me to eliminate downtime — what can I do?
Dave
Edina, Minnesota
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