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Continuous Availability Links
Continuity CentralThe always-on network: strategies for achieving high availability of IT systems. High availability is becoming an increasingly important aspect of many business continuity strategies. This white paper explores the subject in detail.
Disaster Resource GuideBusiness Continuity Strategy Design: How Far Apart Should Primary and Alternate Sites Be? By Alberto Jimenez
The Uptime Institute"The Site Uptime Network® knowledge consortium helps member companies avoid downtime, optimize site infrastructure investment, and achieve a higher level of professionalism in uptime operations practices. By providing a structured and regular forum for participating companies to share ideas, concerns, and problems, the Site Uptime Network facilitates the transfer of important information so members can quickly achieve higher levels of quality performance and customer satisfaction. The synergy of shared ...
availability.com"Marketers call it "24x7" and "Five 9?s Uptime" while news headlines announce its failures with "Crash" and "Blackout". We call it availability. In the end it is a simple concept: delivering on your business promises whenever asked to do so. Easy enough, as an idea, but if you?ve been responsible for or affected by your site?s performance, you already know how daunting the task is. Throw in less-than-adequate execution and missed opportunities, and the light grows dimmer yet. "As a vendor-neutral sit...
ComputerSite EngineeringComputersite Engineering is focused on the specific mission of providing critical data center sites with maximum infrastructure reliability and uninterruptible uptime for continuous availability. Through a detailed matrix review process covering thousands of possible single points of failure, Computersite Engineering accurately analyzes existing and planned sites for potential causes of downtime and specifies the steps to reduce or eliminate vulnerabilities.
Processor MagazineUptime: How Many Nines? August 13, 2004 • Vol.26 Issue 33 Page(s) 12 in print issue. "One of the terms that product vendors like to bandy around is “five nines,” which means 99.999% uptime. They hold this up as some kind of Holy Grail of computing and would dearly love to sell you some equipment to help you achieve this level of reliability. Do you really need five nines of reliability? I think in all but a tiny subset of cases, the answer is no."
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| #1 | Service Level Agreement and SLA Guide - Directory of service level agreement template, guidebook, training, and audit resources. | |
| #2 | Business continuity metrics: How much can you afford to lose? - When developing a disaster recovery plan, companies need to evaluate how fast they can get their businesses running again and how much data they can afford to lose. Bob Cramer, CEO of LiveVault Corp., offers tips on key metrics companies should use to make these decisions. | |
| #3 | A Design Language for Emergency Operations Center Facilities - "Most EOC layouts can be described in terms of a few basic models, each of which has unique implications for the organizational dynamics it supports. These basic layouts are combined and hybridized to yield almost all real-world EOC floorplans." | |
| #4 | IBM's Web Service Level Agreements (WSLA) Project - The Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) project, developed by IBM, addresses service level management issues within a Web services environment. Issues addressed include SLA specification, creation and monitoring. The project provides: Explicit specifications of servlce level agreements that can be monitored by the service provider, customer and even by a third-party; Ease of SLA creation using template-based authoring tools; and, Distributed monitoring framework for deployment in a single site or across multiple sites by translating SLA data in configuration information for the individual service provider components and third party services to perform the measurement and supervision activities. The WSLA creation and monitoring framework complements various other projects addressing issues on proactive management of a service environment, e.g., provisioning resources, workload management, etc., according to the agreed upon service levels specified via WSLA. | |
| #5 | MIT Business Continuity Plan - An external release of the MIT Business Continuity Plan. | |
| #6 | Continuity Central - Sample Business Resumption Plan - Action List | |
