High Availbility

Systems management:

High availability study

Your information system is a critical part of your enterprise - it must be on-line all of the time. Our approach starts with data and application availability as matched to business costs/benefits. We solve the availability challenge through a systemic approach with management, application, software, and hardware components. The key is to identify the appropriate technology option that meets your data and application uptime requirements, thus ensuring that key business data will be continuously available and that your users have the uptime and productivity needed to keep your business competitive.

Focused project

SunIntegration's high availability study is a one-to three-week, participative, highly focused evaluation of your organization's need for high availability in information systems. The service's value is that it examines a range of high availibility options and quantifies both their costs and benefits. Key to highly available systems is a solid foundation of systems management to which specific technologies may apply. We'll examine options ranging from basic replication of systems and data through on-line transaction processing (OLTP) queuing and replication and on-line serviceability to complete software and hardware fault-tolerance. The goal of our high availibility study is to enhance your organization's business performance with a cost-effective, highly available information system that is appropriate to your business needs.

You may wish to use the high availibility study as a more detailed component of an overall systems management architecture; SunIntegration would be happy to advise you in this area.

Questions To Be Answered

Upon completion, the high availibility study will identify and articulate the following issues:

What business processes and business data require high availability?
What are the costs-benefits of different options of high availability solutions?
How can you meet/beat your mainframe uptime with an open systems solution?
What would have to change in your application environment from a development, implementation, and maintenance perspective?
What high availability tools will best meet your needs?

Why SunIntegration?

Sun is recognized as the leading supplier of commercial, open, client-server technologies and is a pioneer in the rightsizing process. Our experience has helped many Fortune 500 companies in their successful rightsizing efforts. Many other smaller enterprises in a diverse set of industries have also benefited from our skills and expertise. Furthermore, SunIntegration draws from its extensive experience in transforming Sun's own $5 billion global enterprise from legacy systems to open systems and client-server computing.

Taking the next step

For more information about SunIntegration's high availibility study and other SunIntegration services, contact your Sun Microsystems sales representative.

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