Summary

As you come to completely understand and assess your application’s high-availability requirements, you can create a matching high-availability solution that will serve you well for years to come. The crux of high availability is laying a fundamentally sound foundation that you can count on when failures occur and then, when failures do occur, determining how much data loss you can tolerate, how much downtime is possible, and what the downtime is costing you.

The overall future seems to be improving greatly in all the basic areas of your Microsoft platform footprint, including

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