Windows Server 2008 getting fault tolerance add-on
InformationWeek | at | by Mike
Fault tolerance will become an add-on feature of the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system that can be switched on with little administrative training, according to spokesmen for Microsoft and Marathon Technologies, supplier of the everRun fault-tolerant system. It will become available in the second quarter.
For the highest level of availability, where users experience no interruption even though a component of the underlying system has failed, the price tag will be about $5,000. A lower level of availability, where the system recovers after a noticeable 20-second delay, will cost $2,000.