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That's four nines or five nines of availability and uptime for their mission-critical line-of-business applications. And 9% of the respondents, so that's almost one out of 10 companies, say that they need greater than five nines of uptime. So what that means is, no downtime.
High availability (HA) is a characteristic of a system that aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period. [ 1 ] There is now more dependence on these systems as a result of modernization.
Uptime is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the period of time a machine, typically a computer, has been continuously working and available. Uptime is the opposite of downtime . Htop adds an exclamation mark when uptime is longer than 100 days.
Availability is the probability that an item will be in an operable and committable state at the start of a mission when the mission is called for at a random time, and is generally defined as uptime divided by total time (uptime plus downtime).
Five nines, commonly taken to mean "99.999%", may refer to: High availability of services, when a service is available for 99.999% of the time, or around 5 minutes of downtime per year; Nine (purity), a 99.999% pure substance; German 15 cm (5.9 in) artillery shells used in World War I
Availability is usually expressed as a percentage of uptime in a given year: Availability Downtime per year 99.9% 8.76 hours 99.99% 1 hour 99.999% 5 minutes
Website monitoring can be done from both inside and outside of a corporate firewall.Traditional network management solutions focus on inside the firewall monitoring, whereas external performance monitoring will test and monitor performance issues across the Internet backbone and in some cases all the way to the end-user.
In telecommunications, a "carrier grade" or "carrier class" refers to a system, or a hardware or software component that is extremely reliable, well tested and proven in its capabilities.