Maximum availability & reliability on Windows servers
For Microsoft, reliability and availability are critical components of the company’s long-term commitment to trustworthy computing. Microsoft began a strategic focus in this area with the release of Microsoft Windows NT Server.
At that time, the company formed a core team dedicated to making Windows servers the most reliable and available environment for running applications in all customer scenarios.
Windows server reliability strategy
The Windows server reliability advances made to date are the result of a continuous process of improvement that began with the release of Windows NT Server. And then involved specific adjustments and refinements over time.
These processes are far more extensive and robust today than in the past but are still based on a simple premise:
Identify the causes of planned and unplanned downtime in customer environments and use this knowledge to drive process, product and service improvements that help to increase the reliability and availability of Windows–based solutions.
The Microsoft strategy for maximising the availability of Windows server solutions consists of the following components:
- Building quality and reliability into the Windows server engineering process.
- Understanding the causes of downtime in customer environments.
- Incorporating product enhancements and new features that increase server uptime.
- Delivering mission-critical capabilities and services.
- Offering prescriptive guidance and best practices.
Summary
The mechanisms for measuring reliability and capturing the causes of downtime have advanced significantly. Internal feedback loops have been expanded to include hundreds of internal servers and a representative sample of the same applications used by Microsoft customers. So availability and reliability rates have never been better and this will continue to improve even further as Microsoft continues to expand its programs and services to empower customers to achieve their availability goals.
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