High Availability - Protecting against downtime and ensuring business continuity with highly available clustered pairs

In the world of medical imaging, where Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) solutions are vital for the storage and management of critical medical imaging data, high availability, even in smaller-scale environments, is imperative.

Taking away customer and vendor pain with high availability for medical imaging applications.

There are several ways you can bond a network interface and two primary reasons why you might want to do so.

The RSNA Annual Meeting was very much back in business this year — with footfall, and exhibits, back to their pre-pandemic buzz. But there was one thing that had changed.

There are a whole host of factors that will influence your choice. However, what I've tried to do here is pull together some key questions you'll need to think about, based on my personal experience, to help you articulate what you need.

The first question we always ask our customers is: "are you looking for performance, reliability, maintainability — or all three?"

We'd all rather prevent a disaster than have to live with the consequences of one.

Growing customer demands are forcing technology providers to reconsider their approach to high availability and scalability.

Why do you need TWO load balancers?

On May 11th 2022, I was listening to the awesome Chris Moyles Show, on Radio when a site they were using crashed while they were on air.

Email notifications are a great way of alerting you to any changes or issues within your load balancer or high availability cluster.

Load balancing? Say what?! Got 2 mins to get your head around the concept? Your time starts....now!

The topic of hardware replacement, trade-in, and upgrade options is rife with opinions, bad habits, and rules of thumb. It gets even more complicated when you consider how your choices are affected by your vendor's randomly changing end-of-life policies.

We get a lot of customers asking to buy a single load balancer. Understandably. One is cheaper than two. But here's why you might want a pair.

!!WARNING!! This blog contains the generic phrase "IT modernization" which some of our readers may find distressing.

Fast forward to a post-Covid-world (if we can call it that) and in many ways the pandemic has helped us all go back to basics and appreciate what’s important in life.

The increased appetite for digital lending and credit solutions has led to an explosion in financial software, algorithms, and applications.

If your applications are mission-critical, then high availability is a key risk management play worth investing in.

Robotic Process Automation simulates user input to drive GUI applications, freeing up clinical staff from admin tasks, reducing human error, saving money, and allowing frontline staff to spend more time with patients.

On the 4th October 2021, the social media giant Facebook experienced a global outage, affecting not only Facebook, but also Instagram and WhatsApp.

This question came up here the other day and, while I do not recommend this approach, I thought it would be worth exploring in a blog post, explaining when and how it could be done.

Hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world rely on Microsoft applications to deliver their fundamental IT services. However, these apps aren't always 100% dependable.

In a world where tech is constantly evolving, it’s impossible to predict all future issues/glitches that might arise.

It really boils down to what you are printing, the volume of print jobs, and often the application it comes from.

With a big, powerful and expensive ADC load balancer, there can be a strong temptation to load balance multiple applications – but when uptime is critical, could it become a single point of failure?