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How to Design Highly Available IT Infrastructure

"High availability" gets used loosely enough in vendor material that it's genuinely lost some of its meaning everything gets described as highly available, the same way everything gets described as…

  • Define an actual availability target (e.g., 99.95%) to determine acceptable downtime per year.
  • Ensure data consistency across redundant systems during failover to maintain service integrity.

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