Well for one thing when you have astronauts in a rocket ship out in space, lives are at stake and failure truly is not an option.
But perhaps a little closer to home failure of your order processing system is something that just can't be allowed. The question is, "How do you avoid failure?" The answer of course is to buy redundant everything and monitor your systems 24x7x366, and backup everything and I mean everything ... twice...
But that would be cost prohibitive right? You couldn't cost justify the computer hardware & software let alone the staff required to achieve such a lofty goal. You just can't afford it right?
Well, as a user of the NextMark platform that is exactly what you pay for and that is exactly what you get.
You are probably saying to yourself, "But there is no way even NextMark could possibly keep things like computer hard drives from failing. Things just fail, it's inevitable. "
Well you are half right. Yes things fail, but that doesn't mean you ever have to worry about it. In fact this past Tuesday a hard drive in one of the NextMark servers did just that, it failed. Now it didn't fail completely, it actually had a single error that triggered an alert to the data center operations team. The drive was reset and started working again right away. That was enough however to warrant it's dismissal. A call was placed immediately to HP who shipped out a replacement which was installed the very next day.
So when is failure not an option? When it's your mission critical business data and the lifeblood of your organization. NextMark is here to help ensure that failure is not option for you.
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