Solutions: Consolidation, Virtualization and Disaster Recovery: High Availability Computing
Whether planned or unplanned, system and network downtime constitute a large and often difficult to quantify cost for most organizations. An entire subset of IT solutions called High Availability has been introduced recently to combat this critical need. The solutions are both hardware and software based and all share a common goal of returning your infrastructure and applications to a restored state in order to continue business operations as quickly as possible. Often times an additional goal is to reduce or eliminate the possibility of downtime due to hardware failure or overload.
We segment our High Availability solutions into the following categories:
- High Availability Virtualization
- Load Balancing — Hardware and Application
- HA Clustering and Failover
High Availability Virtualization incorporates many of the same strategies and features as infrastructure virtualizations such as server and storage. Our understanding and expertise with regard to virtualized IT environments provides us with a solid foundation for creating HA Virtualization Solutions. The advantage here is you are able to manage a single environment and receive the operational benefits of complete redundancy.
Load Balancing for both servers and networks is another important component of High Availability solutions. We offer a number of software based and OS load balancing solutions to increase web based, DNS, OS or database server utilization, uptime and efficiency. In addition, network load balancing ensures that you are getting the highest level of performance from each server within your existing network. Our Microsoft and other software manufacturer expertise is leveraged in establishing the right solution to meet any size organization's needs. In addition, we partner with leading manufacturers to offer application load balancing solutions critical to any organization's ability to get the right information and application to the end user as quickly as possible.
High Availability Failover and Clustering creates redundancy in an effort to reduce single points of failure either via a redundant hardware installation or a software solution. We offer HA clustering solutions from Microsoft, VM Ware, Red Hat, HP and IBM. Venture has an entire staff of engineers dedicated to high availability solutions and specializing in failover and clustering components of that solution based on our many years of infrastructure and network performance management.
