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Availability: defined as the fraction of time that a system remains operational and properly servicing requests.

Annually, companies spend millions of rands on high-availability solutions and disaster recovery, yet they still experience down-time which adversely affect business and lead to quantifiable losses and reputational damage. This is simply because it is virtually impossible to detect failures on all the different components within a high availability environment.

Having repeatedly identified this as problematic in organisations, Recovery Assurance set out to source the most effective solutions to manage these risks.

AVOIDING INCIDENTS BEFORE THEY OCCUR

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