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Active-active vs. Active-passive: Decoding High-availability Configurations for Massive Data Networks

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Critical systems and applications that can’t afford any downtime often employ them to ensure swift failover and maintain operational integrity. Telecommunications systems: Telecommunication networks handling voice calls and messaging services rely on active-passive configurations.

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Hyper-V vs. OpenStack: A Comprehensive Comparison of Virtualization Platforms

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Disaster recovery and backup: Hyper-V supports live migration, replication, and failover clustering, making it a popular choice for business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. To scale out, Hyper-V uses failover clustering, which allows multiple physical hosts to be grouped together in a cluster.

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VMware vs. OpenStack: Choosing the Right Cloud Management Solution

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Mission-critical Workloads Enterprises running mission-critical applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems or large-scale databases, require virtualization platforms that guarantee performance, reliability, and failover protection. This enables them to scale services dynamically and reduce operational costs.