As your enterprise grows, so to does the need for a computing infrastructure capable of supporting today's mission critical applications. Whether you classify downtime as devastating or merely painful, high availability servers are an essential element to running your business. However if you classify downtime as devastating, designing the right mission-critical infrastructure enhances the, speed, and effectiveness of running your business.

First it is crucial to understand the difference between high-availability and mission critical. H/A refers to the ability of the user community to access a system. When a user can't access a system it is generally referred to as unavailable or "down". It should be noted that uptime and availability are not synonymous; a system can be up, but not available, as in the case of a network outage. The system is on-line, but no one can access it.

Mission-critical refers to more than H/A Server design. It is a strategy to systematically eliminate the causes of downtime, and this strategy belongs at the heart of any mission-critical solution. Highly available servers are clearly a critical part of a mission-critical infrastructure, but it goes beyond this to encompass such things as the operating system, the storage and networking environment, and the process by which you manage your computing environment.

Across the enterprise, systems such as e-commerce, enterprise resource planning, and CRM depend on a mission critical computing infrastructure. Amdex, together with HP, provide technology solutions that take into consideration what level of availability, management, security, scalability, and connectivity is necessary to solve your business problem. Our solutions include components such as HP Integrity servers, and the HP-UX operating system. Other operating systems claim to do the job, but some are better suited to other H/A solutions. For truly mission-critical applications, you should rely only on a proven, tested, and world-classed supported O/S. HP-UX is that bulletproof 'non-stop' O/S.

With HP-UX as the foundation, and decades of experience providing mission-critical solutions, we're 'Making IT Easy' to bring together the hardware, software and management tools for tomorrows business critical applications.