5 Things You Should Know About High Availability

In these days of virtual server environments and data warehouses, keeping a data center going calls for a variety of high-availability solutions. Protecting against natural disasters — earthquakes, excessive cold or heat, flooding, hurricanes, lightning strikes, wildfires, etc. — is just one consideration. Business continuity and network uptime can be undermined by more mundane causes, such as disk failures, faulty components, and power outages. Here are five things to keep in mind on the subject of high availability.