With today’s article we are going double, as these two terms are closely related. In fact, many people are using them to refer to the same thing which is not quite accurate.
Let's take a closer look.
If something is fault tolerant it is able to run despite an error or defect. In our world of computing, this could be a server, for example, which continues to run despite a fan discontinuing to work.
This fault tolerance can be achieved through redundancy. So if a fan fails to operate, there will be other fans to ensure the cooling is not interrupted. In other words, this one fan was redundant as there are others that serve the same purpose.
To sum it up, the fault tolerance of a system is impacted by the level of redundancy of its components: You need multiple components in place to make sure a hardware failure is not resulting in an immediate outage. If a component fails it will be replaced as soon as possible to maintain the level of redundancy and fault tolerance.
PTC Cloud Services and Fault Tolerance
Our own datacenters as well as any external infrastructure we are using to deliver PTC Cloud Services are equipped according to the latest industry standards and best practices. We do provide redundancy to secure the required fault tolerance to our customers and prevent outages.
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