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Business Benefits: |
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Maintained confidence
from customers, suppliers, partners and internal
stakeholders in the availability of critical business
applications in the event of disaster or infrastructure
failure |
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Avoidance of revenue
loss and lost productivity from downtime of business-critical
applications |
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IT Benefits: |
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Ability to identify
and rectify potential failure points in infrastructure
and management processes before failure occurs |
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Prioritization of applications
and fault-tolerance measures to align technology
deployment with business goals |
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Less operational pain
in troubleshooting and restoring critical
applications |
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Improved utilization
of existing infrastructure through intelligent
use of load-balancing technologies |
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Best Suited For: |
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Companies that have
recently consolidated their infrastructure
to support implementation of next-generation
integrated business applications (e.g, Siebel,
SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle) |
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Organizations without
a formal Disaster Recovery Plan in place |
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Businesses with mission-critical
applications that must be available on a 24x7
basis |
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Technologies Employed: |
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Network
equipment fail-over technologies such
as HSRP and VRRP which involve deployment
of routers and switches in a redundant fashion,
with two (or more) devices performing
the same role in the infrastructure and taking
over for each other in the event of failure. |
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Server
clustering and load balancing providing
redundancy and intelligent load distribution
across multiple devices in case of unplanned
failure or scheduled downtime. |
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Geographic
load balancing involving duplication
of infrastructure and data in different
geographical locations, for the purpose of
minimizing end-user response-time and providing
redundancy in the event of a large-scale catastrophic
event. |
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High
availability storage technologies such
as RAID, Storage Area Networks (SANs), and
Network-Attached Storage (NAS) which provide
applications with uninterrupted data access
in the event of physical hardware or database
connectivity failure. |
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Available Services: |
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Review and assessment
of application, server, storage, security,
connectivity, and physical facilities infrastructure
against best-practices |
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Review and assessment
of disaster-recovery processes against best-practices |
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Prioritization of availability and
fault-tolerance improvement measures based
on business objectives |
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Design of network fail-over,
load-balancing and high-availability storage
infrastructures |
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Competitive hardware
and/or software evaluation, selection and
procurement |
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Implementation, testing
and documentation of infrastructure |
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Training and knowledge
transfer to in-house staff, including lab
simulations |
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