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For many enterprises 24 x 7 availability is no longer an option - it is a necessity. Disaster recovery plans are no longer sufficient as the business demands recovery within a couple of hours - not days. Recovering from last night's tapes and recapturing lost transactions after a system or application failure is no longer a viable option for many enterprises in highly competitive industries.
Consultants agree that implementing fast fail over to duplicated resources provides the highest level of availability in planned and unplanned outages for critical servers and applications. Additionally, server consolidations often mandate a higher level of availability.
Our industry experts help you design an architecture that best suits your specific environment and needs. Their in-depth expertise and knowledge of both IBM and non-IBM offerings helps customers choose the correct tool, or mixture of tools, to help improve availability. Although this offering concentrates primarily on reducing the pain associated with planned outages, having duplicated resources helps dramatically shorten the time resulting from unplanned outages.
Using proven methodologies the consultants meet with members of your team to discuss specifics related to both planned and unplanned outages. It highlights areas of special consideration when considering the different types of availability methodologies available on the market today.
The on-site review is customized to your requirements and the following topics are covered:
- The business need for high availability
- Installed hardware and architecture
- Current and planned software and applications
- The users
- The network
- Database design and dependencies
- Change control and system management
- Service Level Agreements
- Application design and flow
No two enterprises are the same and our customized deliverable, provided after the review, includes findings and recommendations designed specifically around you. If you are planning to interview high availability business partners, our consultants help you zone in on the specific product and technical issues for discussion, which are specific to your environment.
They also help you understand what’s required to increase the availability of your application - as increasing the availability of the hardware is only part of the equation for some enterprises.
Not only can our experts help you design and implement a viable highly available infrastructure, they can provide in-depth audits on existing installations.
Want to know more about your options - and our customizable offering? Call Dan Heithoff on (507)-286-6846 - to arrange a conference with our experts. They will provide you with an unbiased, sound and workable recommendation.
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