Designing for High Availability

IT shops should decide when to use HA strategies by: (1) gathering data on the business impact of application downtime, (2) analyzing the causes and likelihood of planned and unplanned downtime, (3) assessing which HA design strategies can affect which causes and (4) evaluating the extra cost of HA...

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Published in:DM Review 2004-04, Vol.14 (4), p.1.A
Main Author: Bob Zimmerman with Noel Yuhana, Randy Heffner and Jean-Pierre Garbani, Forrester Research, Inc
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Failure
Productivity
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Summary:IT shops should decide when to use HA strategies by: (1) gathering data on the business impact of application downtime, (2) analyzing the causes and likelihood of planned and unplanned downtime, (3) assessing which HA design strategies can affect which causes and (4) evaluating the extra cost of HA against its resulting benefits.