Message from the Workshop Organisers

Abstract

High availability (HA) of mission-critical IT services is becoming indispensable. HA is receiving rapidly increasing attention, since many services need to be reachable and reliable at any place and any time. Increasingly many mission-critical governmental, institutional, and commercial services are in demand of HA, for improving their dependability. System downtimes resulting in a lack of availability are undesirable or even intolerable, due to ergonomic, economical, and security reasons. HA has established itself as a benchmark for user acceptance, market viability, system dependability, and trustworthiness of distributed systems.