Benefits of clusters

Clusters provide a solution if your business demands operational systems 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Start of changeBy using clustering, you can greatly reduce the number and duration of unplanned outages and the duration of planned outages, thereby ensuring that your systems, data, and applications are continuously available.End of change

The major benefits that clusters can offer your business are:

Continuous availability
Clusters ensures that your systems, data and applications remain continuously available.
Simplified administration
Start of changeYou can manage a group of systems as a single system or single database, without having to sign on to individual systems. You can use a cluster administrative domain to more easily manage resources that are shared within a cluster. End of change
Increased scalability
Seamlessly add new components as your business growth requires.
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