How well are high availability applications supported?

Most businesses have critical applications that are vital to their remaining in operation. But support for these programs is a mixed picture according to a new report. The study from application availability specialist SIOS Technology finds 86 percent of organizations are operating their high availability (HA) applications with some kind of clustering or high availability mechanism in place. Even so, 95 percent of respondents report that they have occasional failure in the underlying HA services that support their applications. Also 98 percent of respondents say that they see either regular or occasional application performance issues. When such issues occur, for… [Continue Reading]