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What Does Missoni Have to Do With Business Continuity?

  Missoni Madness   Missoni Madness. Missoni Mayhem. Missoni Mania. All have been cited by the media as reference to the phenomenon that caused Target’s web site to crash yesterday when consumers flooded the retailer online with hopes of scoring an item from the limited-edition, low-cost designer collection from Italian fashion designer Missoni. Target.com was [...] Read More

What’s the “N” in N+1 High Availability?

Many virtualization solutions running on distributed systems claim the ability to automatically move an application between processing resources in the case of a hardware or application failure. This eliminates the 1:1 mapping for high availability (for every active server there is a corresponding active/passive server) and therefore creates N+1 high availability. That’s great but what [...] Read More