High Availability for Business
High availability (HA) means different things to different people. For a database system, high availability can be viewed from two different perspectives: business and technical. We have already discussed the attributes of HA from a technical perspective; however, from a business perspective, database HA can be viewed as a strategy to minimize loss of revenue.
The purpose of HA is to reduce lost revenue due to system failures; however, any resulting loss of revenue from a system outage must be higher than the associated costs of hardware and software required to implement high availability.
The potential loss of revenue can be derived by performing an analysis on a business unit to determine the dollar amount generated ...
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