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A Comprehensive Approach to Application Availability

Overview Businesses are under relentless pressure to improve application availability, striving for 100% availability for mission-critical applications. Revenue cannot be generated unless the business is up and running. Due to the increasing dependency of businesses on their IT organization and the increasing cost of downtime, organizations are focusing on the various causes of outages and adopting a systematic approach to reducing the risks of downtime. This paper explores the different obstacles to improving application availability and explains how the NetApp storage infrastructure uniquely addresses these challenges to provide superior data availability and speedy recovery from disaster.

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Publisher	Network Appliance (NetApp)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management, Application Development

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