What Is Fault Tolerance and Why It Differs From High Availability

Fault Tolerance vs High Availability

With organizations becoming more reliant than ever before on data availability, a new array of terms describing different types of redundancies has entered the IT infrastructure lexicon. In many cases, these terms don’t quite mean what they sound like or create a misleading impression about what specific circumstances they actually cover. Sometimes, similar-sounding terms may … Read more

Server Downtime: Common Causes and How to Prevent Them

Server Downtime - Common Causes and How to Prevent Them

Although organizations often take every precaution imaginable, the threat of server downtime is difficult to fully eliminate. With even a few minutes of downtime likely to cost dearly in terms of lost productivity and opportunity, companies are turning to data centers to keep their mission-critical network systems up and running no matter the circumstances. For some industries, … Read more