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COPING WITH THE CRUNCH – IT professionals overwhelming link data performance and preparedness with the ability to generate business, but most are not prepared to handle spikes in demand that are looming in the short term. Respondents to a recently completed landmark study identify multiple forces creating a ‘digital deluge’, and they’re scrambling to add capacity and performance to keep pace. Uptime @ Crunch Time – Valuing the Need for Data Speed at Critical Business Inflections, looks at obstacles and opportunities for companies to get it right. download
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Unplanned downtime can strike at any time from any number of causes. Although natural disasters may appear to be the most devastating cause of IT outages, application problems are the most frequent threat to IT uptime. According to Gartner, people and process problems cause an estimated 80 percent of unexpected application downtime. Human error, such as not performing a required task, performing a task incorrectly (such as mis-configuring software), overburdening a disk drive or deleting a critical file, play havoc with applications. – Gartner
Maintaining maximum 99.99% uptime of devices in the data center is imperative for today’s distributed networks.
– Latronix, The Key to Maximizing Network & Server Uptime
