Which of the following server contingency solutions offers the highest availability?

Of the offered technologies, load balancing/disk replication offers the highest availability, measured in terms of minutes of lost data or server downtime.

A Network-Attached Storage (NAS) or a Storage Area Network (SAN) solution combined with virtualization would offer an even higher availability.

Source: SWANSON, Marianne, & al., National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NIST Special Publication 800-34, Contingency Planning Guide for Information Technology Systems, December 2001 (page 49).