The RAIN technology was developed at Caltech, NASA, and DARPA to provide fault tolerance in distributed systems. It includes components for redundant data storage across nodes, communication between nodes, and recovery of applications if a node fails. The architecture connects nodes in a ring using diameter construction to tolerate multiple failures without partitioning. RAIN provides advantages like unlimited cluster size, load balancing, and tolerance of simultaneous node failures. Potential applications include high-availability servers. Future work may include APIs and a distributed file system using RAIN's partitioning schemes.