I am always harping on about fault tolerant technology. By definition, technology is normally associated with hardware but not always.

So, here is the BUT with reference to the guys I work for. You can do lots of clever stuff with software these days and here is the proof.

For SMB and medium sized deployments, it’s the bees’ knees or the dog’s you know what .

You may wonder what on earth Avance is …

Well, if you were to take a couple of standard servers running an enterprise class virtualisation software stack, slap on some shared storage, add some (usually expensive) licences to manage things like live migration and monitor/manage, shake it all up to come out with a single product/solution, I guess you would have Avance.