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Continuous Availability - Systems Design Guide

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Continuous Availability - Systems Design Guide

Are you a computer professional who is responsible for the integrity and availability of the computer network in your organization? Do you wonder how to make your computer systems outage-free, day and night, all week, all year? If your organization has a need for continuously available applications, and you are involved in the design, planning, or implementation of such systems, this redbook is for you.

It gives an overview of how to design a data processing environment so that its users are spared both unexpected and planned outages. It identifies and explains the challenges and processes involved, and describes the following:
How to determine the requirements of your business processes by performing a risk analysis and a business impact analysis.

How to design and implement a continuously available system using elements like fault-tolerant components, automated operations, and appropriate systems management.

This book guides you through a complete cycle of analysis, design, and implementation of continuously available systems. While a brief guidebook like this cannot supply all the technical expertise needed to actually perform all required design and implementation work, it will help you manage the complexities of the subject. You may need a team of consultants and technical experts, like IBM's Availability Managers, to do the work, but this book will help you ask the right questions to get a complete job done.

Many of the considerations pertaining to continuous availability are independent of any particular computer brand or architecture, and for the most part, no specific products are discussed.

However, we believe the IBM S/390 is an extremely rich platform terms of fault tolerance, automation, and concurrent maintenance capabilities. An appendix illustrates some of these concepts by showing how they are implemented in hardware and software components within the S/390 platform. A more detailed discussion of these technologies is provided in the Continuous Availability S/390 Technology Guide redbook.
Price: $37.00 $29.00
Pages: 188
Date Published: December 14, 1998
ISBN: 0738412252
Author: IBM Redbooks
Product Number: SG24-2085-00
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