High Availability: Everything you need to know
When we work in a company where information and being always available is the most important thing, problems such as system crashes, power outages or loss of documents can become a real challenge for those in charge of the IT department.
But how can we ensure that these problems do not lead to loss of information and operating times? The answer lies in the high availability of cloud computing systems.
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What is High Availability (HA)?
This term refers to a system design protocol that ensures absolute operational continuity, that is, regardless of system or network failures, users will be able to access the system whenever and wherever they want since it and its information will be hosted in a public cloud.
This will be a great step and a great help especially for SMEs with multiple locations, as they will benefit from security and, depending on the provider, the guarantee of having different regions for storage and data consultation.
Advantages of high availability in the cloud
1. Remote access and from different devices
By migrating all processes and information to the cloud, there will be no intervention of any kind. In other words, from the same control panel of the application or platform you will be able to access all the servers of the same, check their capacity, the processes executed, etc. All this with just one click. It couldn't be simpler, right?
2. Troubleshooting
By migrating all these processes to the public cloud or virtualizing them, all problems that could arise with the physical hardware are automatically resolved because, since the information has been moved to the cloud, electronic or mechanical errors will disappear since they cannot affect a non-physical entity.
3. Auto recovery
In the unlikely event of a malfunction in one of the system's physical machines, you can rest assured that the cloud servers will be activated automatically to ensure that there is no loss of information and the platform can be recovered in the shortest possible time.
4. Unlimited
This platform was designed with high information and user traffic in mind, while also taking into account all the processes that could be carried out. For this reason, this platform keeps each of the servers in a different node so that the workload of one does not affect the other and can be distributed between both. This achieves high performance.
5. Security
When hosting assets in the cloud, a username and password will be required to access it, so security when working in the cloud is increased as all folders and data will be encrypted.
High Availability is just one of the many advantages of the public cloud. With the help of cloud experts, you can understand how to move all your assets to this service quickly and efficiently. At Apser we are here to help you with everything related to the deployment of systems and data in the cloud. Do not hesitate to contact us.
