Downtime and its impact on business

Downtown minimization is at the heart of what many infrastructure teams focus on. Whether you’re building out your own data center, working out of a co-location facility, or leveraging a hyperscale cloud such as Google Cloud, one of the key measurements of your team’s success is reliability. Reliability refers to the ability to provide uninterrupted and performant services to your clients. Improving reliability is something that can be achieved through several strategies and at different levels of the architecture.

Redundancy is a key concept in ensuring systems are reliable. Redundancy refers to running infrastructure and systems in a way that even if systems fail, there is minimal disruption or no disruption at all to the customer experience. This is achieved by duplicating systems to provide an alternative should the primary system(s) fail. This may mean duplicating an entire data center or deployment so that outages have minimal...