High Availability: Design, Techniques and Processes (Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute Series) - Softcover

Piedad, Floyd; Hawkins, Michael W.

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9780137141197: High Availability: Design, Techniques and Processes (Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute Series)

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ISBN 10: 013714119X ISBN 13: 9780137141197

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2000

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Training, systems support, backup and maintenance account for nearly 80% of the total cost of today's 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: Design, Techniques and Processes, 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 spending more money. Using extensive real-world examples and scenarios, the authors cover the entire application lifecycle. Learn how to design systems that will be easier to maintain; ensure that new systems will not increase in cost later due to problems you could have anticipated; and plan long-term availability strategies. Discover how to improve redundancy, increase standardization, simplify backups, and much more. These strategies and techniques are applicable to any IT professional, at any level, in any architecture, from traditional mainframes through client/server to leading-edge n-tier environments. For all IT professionals, including system architects, project managers, administrators, software developers and software engineers.

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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 today's 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 hardware and operating systems

Discover how to create systems that will be easier to maintain, anticipate and prevent problems, and define ongoing availability strategies that account for business change. Whatever your IT role, whatever your IT architecture, this book can help you deliver the breakthrough availability levels your organization needs right now.

About the Author:

FLOYD PIEDAD is President of AKAsia Services Corporation, a leading Internet services company based in Manila, the Philippines.

MICHAEL HAWKINS is an IT management consultant who specializes in implementing and managing large IT infrastructures for companies throughout Asia and North America.

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