What is High Availability?

In IT terms, high availability is the term used to describe a server or network, and by extension all of the constituent components, that is continuously available for data input, processing, and report querying. In it’s simplest sense, we see high availability in our everyday interactions on the web, it is very rare for the top 10 websites to be offline. The systems and protocols in place largely determine the success or not of a high availability goal, mostly because components fail randomly, and no […]