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Open: Mission-Critical for the Super-Pragmatic

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 12, 2005

“As business demand for always-on systems to process and
transact volumes of data around the clock grows, even the most
technology-challenged can at least translate terms like high
availability to mean hits-without-hiccups. The ever optimistic IDC
expects revenue for highly available servers to increase from $6.5B
in 2001 to over $10.7B by next year.

“Emic Networks was ready for that kind of surge back in November
2001 when it was founded in Oulu, Finland…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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