High Availability: Design, Techniques and Processes Hardcover - 2000 - 1st Edition

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The complete how-to guide for maximizing the availability of enterprise systems. Training, support, backup, and maintenance account for nearly 80 percent of the total cost of todays enterprise applications-and much of that money is spent trying to squeeze increased availability out of applications in spite of weak design and management processes. In High Availability, two leading IT experts bring together best practices for every people and process-related issue associated with maximizing application availability. The goal: to help enterprises dramatically improve the value of their strategic applications, without investing a dime more than necessary. *Enhancing all four key elements of availability: reliability, recoverability, serviceability, and manageability *Understanding how your users define availability *Planning achievable service level agreements-and delivering on them *Strategies for multiple platforms, from the mainframe to the desktop *Lowering administrative costs through standardization and other techniques *Redundancy, backup, fault tolerance, partitioning, automation, and other high availability solutions *Leveraging availability features built into your existing

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