Achieving 99.99% Business Continuity with SQL Server tools

Within the IT organisations it has been a huge expansion of increased challenges with regard to number of office locations and keep up the data consistent across the Enterprise. Travelling around the globe is a olden day myth and now even by sitting at your office or home you can obtain the required data, when it comes to Business or Sales using Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office integration is very easy to accomplish. This is where the requirement of availability has been increased and day-by-day the data needs to be available 24/7 rota and DBAs & System Administrators role has been more important to look at High Availability options to ensure that their systems are there when they are needed.

There is no doubt to state that SQL Server product has been evolved into a major Database provisional technology when you need such a flexible and one-click solution. At the same time achieving High Availability & Business Continuity is major hurdle to achieve within any product & tools.

In this regard I would like to refer 2 important events from Technet that has got important information in achieving Business Continuity for your Database Applications:

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=~CMTYDataSvcParams%5E~arg+Name%3D%22ID%22+Value%3D%221032373899%22%2F%5E~arg+Name%3D%22ProviderID%22+Value%3D%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2F%5E~arg+Name%3D%22lang%22+Value%3D%22en%22%2F%5E~arg+Name%3D%22cr%22+Value%3D%22US%22%2F%5E~sParams%5E~%2FsParams%5E~%2FCMTYDataSvcParams%5E

24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Ensuring Business Continuity:here you can download the podcast (audio only): WMA | MP3 (right click and ‘save target as’ to download)

SQL Server 2008: Access Your Data Any Place, Any Time.