Environment Platform means that application services and data are nearly always accessible. Because today's application services are increasingly interlinked, failure of any single component in an application environment can have a cascading effect throughout the firm that can pose significant business risk and financial loss. In the Environment Platform, there are interdependencies between the various applications servers and services (Wegman, 2009).
When even one service is unavailable, it can dramatically affect all of the other services. If this happens, people are forced to make business decisions without supporting data, which can lead to disastrous results. In ...