We have always heard the role of NonStop described as being best-suited platform where 100% uptime is mandatory; where the customer’s business cannot tolerate any exceptions; where nothing can be allowed to interrupt the works of the solution and where the application’s failure means the customer’s business fails. There is a cost when a Business Critical application fails, especially when the failure affects publically used and very visible applications like ATMs or POS devices. An outage or even a brownout – the failure to accommodate transaction peaks – can cost a company more than just the loss of transactions in … Continue reading The ABC’s of an Affordable Business Critical Compute