Companies are under intense pressure to keep their systems running 24/7 and ensure data is continuously available. Since firms are being held to a higher standard of high availability, the challenge for most is to design server and storage systems that are truly continuous and that guard against unplanned downtime. That means high availability, long associated with application/system uptime, is evolving to include the service of data availability.

Aberdeen uses two key performance criteria to distinguish Best in Class (BIC) companies that leverage a high availability strategy: the overall ability to recover critical applications within a short window and year-over-year improvement in ability to recover data. This whitepaper is not to be missed by serious IT professionals.