SIOS Technology Corp., the industry pioneer
in providing intelligent application availability for critical workloads, today
announced the results of a survey it conducted in partnership with ActualTech Media to understand
current trends and challenges related to the general state of HA (high
availability) applications in organizations of all sizes. The news is mixed
when it comes to how well HA applications are supported.
The
survey gathered responses from 390 IT professionals and decision makers from a
broad range of company sizes in the U.S. Respondents consisted of people that
manage databases, infrastructure, architecture, systems and software
development, as well as those in IT management roles. For the purposes of this
report, the focus is on tier-1 mission-critical applications, including Oracle,
Microsoft SQL Server, and SAP/HANA.
Interesting
findings include:
- Most
(86%), but not all, organizations are operating their HA applications with
some kind of clustering or high availability mechanism in place.
- A
full 95% of respondents report that they have occasional failure in the
underlying HA services that support their applications.
- Ninety-eight
percent (98%) of respondents to the survey indicated that they see either
regular or occasional application performance issues.
- When
such issues occur, for most organizations, it takes between three and five
hours to identify the cause and correct the issue and it takes using
between two and four tools to do so.
- Small
companies are leading the way by going all-in on operating their HA
applications in the cloud and more than half (54%) of small companies
intend to be running 50% or more of their HA applications in the cloud by
the end of 2018.
- For
companies of all sizes, control of the application environment remains a
key reason why workloads remain on premises, with 60% of respondents
indicating that this has played a factor in retaining one or more HA
application on-premises rather than moving it into the cloud.
"There are
some important trends that emerge from the report: first, it's clear that
organizations understand that the cloud lacks the guarantees needed to
protect their mission-critical applications, and they're using clustering or
other high availability technology," said Jerry Melnick, president and CEO,
SIOS Technology. "A second takeaway is that even with those safeguards in
place, the complexity and reliability of operations in the cloud offer
particular challenges for HA solutions. This speaks to an important need for
significantly more sophisticated HA solutions beyond what's out there today.
Next generation HA technologies will use machine learning-based intelligence to
ensure reliable operations, reduce cost and offer deeper insight into cloud
operations impacting service delivery and performance. These innovations
will yield huge benefits in helping customers who rely on the services of
critical applications."
For more details,
interested parties can download the full survey report here. https://us.sios.com/san-sanless-clusters-resources/survey-report-the-state-of-high-availability/