It is a fortunate change of events for the SMB-sized shop that the powerful business continuity technology of high availability is no longer reserved for the largest enterprises. Because of dropping hardware and communications costs, the dropping cost of HA software, a host of self-healing and self managing capabilities making HA simple to run, plus new options to purchase HA as a cost-per-month service, thousands of companies that used to precariously rely on tape backups as their sole disaster recovery strategy can easily cost-justify the "Cadillac" of disaster recovery solutions.