September 2010
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The availability continuum depicted in Figure 18.1 shows a general classification of availability based on the amount of downtime an application can tolerate without impacting the business. You would write your service-level agreements (SLAs) to support and try to achieve one of these continuum categories.
Figure 18.1 Availability continuum.

Topping the chart is the category extreme availability, so named to indicate that this is the least tolerant category and is essentially a zero (or near zero) downtime requirement (that is, sustained 99.5% to 100% availability). The mythical five-nines falls at the high end of ...
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