Application Availability

'HTTP 404# Unable to reach web server' the server has gone off line and you are losing thousands of pounds a second. Customers are looking at your competitors' websites and the phone is ringing.

Quick what do you do?


Often is the case where you prepare for high volumes of traffic and ensure the application is returning suitable response times, but what happens when the worst truly happens?

What are your service level agreements (SLA’s) with your customers?
How do you ensure that the application has little or no downtime?


Here at RISC Group IT solutions we understand that the applications are the primary focus, without it the tills, don’t work, orders aren’t shipped and the MD can't sent his company-wide email. As IT has become an everyday part of our working lives, technology has taken strides to ensure that applications and their respective data are protected and forever available.

We are able to work with you to ensure that applications keep running and to ensure downtime is a kept to an absolute minimum. Often summed up by RTO (Recovery Time objective) and RPO (Recovery Point objectives. How long can you afford to be without your IT systems and how much work are you prepared to have lost?

Utilising protection systems for companies large and small we can show you how to ensure you reach these metrics at a price point to suit you.

Application Availability
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Clustering - Creating a high availability solution to protect against hardware failure.

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Replication/Mirroring – Retaining live copies of data on duplicate servers or disk arrays in alternate locations for near instant recovery.

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Snapshot - a copy of a set of files and directories as they were at a particular point in the past, enabling roll back to a known good point in time.

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Load Balancing – Ensuring applications are protected against peak traffic loads and flash crowding.

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Replication/Mirroring – Retaining live copies of data on duplicate servers or disk arrays in alternate locations for near instant recovery.

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No Single Point of Failure - Ensuring all elements of your infrastructure are resilient against hardware failure.


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