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- Most organizations mandate that IT Operations control spending, while also ensuring the ongoing performance of critical business services. This situation is complicated by increased complexity, growing business dependence on IT, and scarcity of skilled IT talent. The attendee will learn how to overcome these challenges using BMC Application Performance Analytics....
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- Maximum Availability Architecture
- This paper describes a technical architecture that removes the complexity of designing a highly available HA architecture for your business. Maximum Availability Architecture MAA is a simple, redundant, and robust architecture that prevents, detects, and recovers from different outages within a small mean time to recovery MTTR, as well as...
- White papers 2005-06-01
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