High Availability White Papers
Improving System Availability with Storage Area Networks
Overview With the emergence of the Internet and the proliferation of global eBusiness applications, more and more companies are implementing computing infrastructures specifically designed for continuous data and system availability. Today, even applications such as company e-mail have become critical for ongoing business operations. Faced with increased customer and internal user expectations, companies are currently striving to achieve at least 99.999 percent (the five "nines") availability in their computing systems-a figure equivalent to less than 5.3 minutes of downtime a year. Additional downtime can severely impact business operations and cost valuable time, money, and resources. To ensure the highest level of system uptime, companies are implementing reliable storage networks capable of boosting the availability of data for all the users and applications that need it. These companies typically represent the industries that demand the highest levels of system and data availability-the utilities and telecommunications sector, brokerages and financial service institutions, and a wide variety of service providers, for example.
| Publisher | Brocade Communications Systems | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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