Achieving Five 9s

As you have no doubt surmised by now, evaluating, selecting, designing, and implementing the right high availability solution should not be left to the weak at heart or the inexperienced. There is too much at stake for your company in the event mistakes are made in this process. For this reason, we will, again, stress that you use your best technologists for any HA assessment you do OR go get some outside help that specializes in HA assessments. And get it fast.

The good news is that achieving the mythical five 9s (a sustained 99.999% availability of your application) can be done, if you follow the steps that we have outlined. In addition, you have now had a chance to thoroughly dig into the primary HA solutions from Microsoft ...

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