Business Forces Driving the Need for Continuous Availability While the pace of business continues to increase, tolerance for downtime decreases. If your systems aren’t continuously available, your customers have access to competitive goods and services with just a few clicks, and they may not come back. Global business partners demand access to applications and data around the clock, or they may also choose to do business with your competitors. Meanwhile, strict regulations and service level agreements have been levied against businesses, threatening them with penalties for downtime or lost data. T oday’s Information T echnology professionals face extreme challenges to meet ever-increasing goals for systems availability and business resilience. If these forces are at work in you

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