High availability is a hot phrase in the IT industry, but do you know what it means and how to accomplish it? IT professionals attempt to implement high availability every day by buying a lot of expensive hardware and software without tackling the real problem. Many people, both in technology jobs and in management, believe that high availability is a canned technology solution that they can put in place and forget about. But technology is only a small piece of the puzzle called high availability.

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