She agreed that it takes longer to enter applications, but saves time in other areas. For example, she no longer has to leave her seat to look up an applicant's paper file, then sort through it to determine if all essential elements have been received. Now she can use the computer to search for an applicant and easily see all of the information on the screen. Those servers house several instances of the PeopleSoft system. In the development environment, redundancy is needed to accommodate the various aspects and phases of implementation process like demonstration, development, test, training, quality assurance and ultimately production.
RAID is a way of storing the same data in different places on multiple hard disks.
MTBF is a rating measured in hours that indicates the sturdiness of the sturdiness of hard disk drives. Storing data redundantly also increases fault-tolerance. Fault tolerance is the ability of a system to respond gracefully to an unexpected hardware or software failure. There are many flavors of RAID and many levels of fault tolerance from which to select. The configuration for DePaul is designed to best support University initiatives.