Formerly acceptable availability targets of 5.26 minutes downtime a year are by now an almost outdated target for modern business continuity systems. Today organisations and companies aim for almost 100% availability of critical systems.
The downtime of certain modules for even several days was acceptable a decade ago (only then it would usually have significant damage), but this has dramatically changed with the uprise of real-time-processing. A recent study by the Aberdeen group found out how that an average downtime hour costs 163.000 Dollars, with variations based on the type of business and industry.
Banks, logistics, travel, sales and media companies around the world have realized that they became highly dependent on high availability of their offerings via IP based networks. Outages have serious implications on the continued operation of businesses – causing direct loss of revenue, legal liabilities as well as long term damage to reputation and brand name.
Zero downtime
To close the gap to the ideal scenario of 100% availability, the Orbit project goes a novel path. Processing power and modules will be provided by multiple external hosts instead of limited to a single server. This special architecture with existing virtual machine fault tolerance solutions will enable a highly robust system and will allow to migrate critical workloads into reliable cloud plattforms.




