Data Repositories and Infrastructure Services
All but the smallest businesses rely on computers to store and retrieve the data that flows through their organizations. For rapid retrieval, this data usually resides on high-performance magnetic storage, rather than tape. Normally, mirroring or RAID 5 protects the data to prevent a disk failure leading to data loss. However, a server outage renders the data unavailable until the server is fixed. As a result, other information-processing tiers within a corporation cannot function until the data is available again. A Sun Cluster solution provides an insurance policy by limiting the maximum service outage of vital data to the time it takes to recover and restart the service.
Within most organizations, ...
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