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Availability Concepts

Availability

Availability is the time that business services are operational. In other words, availability is a synonym of business continuity. And when it comes to IT Infrastructure, systems, site, or data center, availability reflects the span of time applications, servers, site, or any other infrastructure components that are up and running and providing value to the business.

The focus of this book is based on the IT Infrastructure and data center availability leading to business uptime.

IT Infrastructure availability ensures that its components are fault tolerant, resilient, and provide high availability and ...

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