Compaq ProLiant 1000 Architecting and Deploying High-Availability Solutions - Page 1

White Paper October 1998 ECG064/1198 Prepared by CustomSystems Enterprise High Availability Segment Compaq Computer Corporation Contents Introduction 3 Determining Availability Requirements 3 What is the Cost of Downtime? 4 Recovery Point and Recovery Time 5 What Causes Downtime? 6 Vulnerable Technologies 7 Availability Technologies 8 Architecting High-Availability Systems 9 -- Deployment Options 10 -- Service and Support Options 10 Putting it all Together 12 List of Sales Offices 14 Architecting and Deploying High-Availability Solutions Abstract: The demand for high availability is growing. Long required for mission-critical applications in industries such as finance, process manufacturing, and telecommunications, high availability today is fast becoming a requirement in many other industries as well. This white paper provides an overview of the combination of factors that defines high-availability computing requirements. It describes methodologies that can assist you in architecting and deploying the right level of availability across your information-technology environment. And it describes how Compaq can assist organizations of any size in achieving their high-availability computing goals. Help us improve our technical communication. Let us know what you think about the technical information in this document. Your feedback is valuable and will help us structure future communications. Please send your comments to: [email protected]