Virtualization and Fault Tolerance

Virtualization and fault-tolerant technology are like the would-be ideal couple, a match made in heaven, but who never meet, even though they’re constantly in the same place at the same time. That can be a funny conundrum in romantic comedies, but in the real IT world, virtualization and fault tolerance need to get together quickly and often. IT organizations that are virtualizing their server infrastructures need both technologies if they’re going to succeed in building platforms that have virtualization’s efficiency but also provide the continuous availability they need to support enterprise applications.

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