Remote Data Mirroring: A Necessary Precaution Sioux Falls SD

Posted by : Bill Margeson

In today's volatile business climate, data is the key to survival. Behind the viability of any successful organization, big or small, is the guarantee of the ongoing flow of information. If and when that flow comes to a halt -- even for a short period of time -- the effect will be critical.

More than ever before, businesses depend on information availability and access. For most companies, losing access to their data for a prolonged period of time will result in serious consequences and the cost of systems and information unavailability can amount to millions of dollars per hour.

These downtime costs can add up at a truly staggering pace. In a one-month period in early 1999, at the height of the dot-com bubble, online trader Trade suffered four system outages. The result was a 22 per cent loss on the company's stock price. In June 1999, Internet auction firm eBay was hit by 22 hours of operating system failure. The costs? A revenue hit tagged at between $3 million and $5 million, and a 26 per cent decline in the company's stock price.

Continuous system and data availability is arguably the most critical business and organizational requirement today. Fast recovery from failures and disasters is a logical corollary.

Uninterrupted availability is most commonly achieved by the presence of redundant design, clustering and fail-over with software and firmware support.

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