AVAILABILITY SOLUTIONS

Our availability solutions assist a client to define their true business requirement and match this with appropriate technology. Factors to be considered include:-

• Business Impact of Outages
• Business Operational Status
• Seasonality / Critical Time Periods
• High Risk Infrastructure Components

A clear understanding of the requirement and impact allows us to define a clear solution which can consist of:-

 

Operational Changes

Simple operational practices, change management, education and basic physical changes to the infrastructure can drastically increase availability and may be all that is required.

Clustering / Replication / Virtualisation

This range of options provide a solution that recovers (generally automatically) from a range of failures - typically around hardware and major subsystem failure. There are a wide range of solutions in this area that need to be considered.

Continuous Availability

Technology exists that avoids the failure completely - there is no need to recover and therefore the outage is completely avoided. This technology delivers the highest levels of availability in the marketplace today.