Compaq ProLiant 1000 Architecting and Deploying High-Availability Solutions - Page 11

Architecting and Deploying High-Availability Solutions 11 • Total support for servers, network operating system, applications, switching components, and PCs • Multivendor support for a diverse range of products including networking equipment, applications, and peripherals • Unrivaled expertise in Microsoft support: A Microsoft Solution Provider and Authorized Support Center, we have the world's largest concentration of Microsoft certified engineers in the world. • Unequaled warranty terms and options With more than three decades of experience, Compaq offers a full suite of processes, methods, and tools designed to create high-availability environments that meet your mission-critical requirements. With our broad range of technologies, we can help you define your availability requirements, target the best platform or blend of platforms for deployment, and deliver an integrated, enterprise-wide system. The people who know availability best can help you assess how to improve the availability of your existing environment or to design an infrastructure from the ground up. Let's take a look at how we do this. Compaq Availability Review Identify risks to availability in your environment If your organization depends on the availability of your technology environment, downtime can result in loss of revenue, penalties and fees, and damage to your organization's image. Any reduction in availability affects productivity. Inevitably, time and change will threaten the stability of any technology environment and in turn, your operations. A Compaq Availability Review can help you guard against downtime exposure and improve your availability. The Compaq Availability Review offers unique value through a combination of expertise, innovative tools, and experience that produces a proactive solution for high-availability needs. Compaq availability consultants train intensively on the factors affecting uptime, solutions to improve them, and the tools and methods employed during an Availability Review. In partnership with your team, our consultants compare the current state of your information technology installation with your business and availability goals and help you plot the course to achieve your goals. This process entails • Investigating all factors of your IT installation related to availability • Calculating the cost of downtime for critical environments • Simulating multiple improvement scenarios to reach the maximum return on investment • Recommending actions that can minimize risk and improve availability Compaq can analyze any vendor's technology, in any configuration, in over 100 countries around the world. And we can tailor your analysis report to suggest improvements that will satisfy specific and differing availability requirements across your organization. In the process, we • Gain a full understanding of your unique business, operational, and availability risks • Accurately examine downtime consequences across complex, dynamic, and global computing environments • Identify and prioritize availability improvements to minimize risk, optimize uptime, and gain control of your IT assets • Simulate the addition of new systems to determine the impact on your environment An Availability Review is the best first step toward optimal uptime and its financial rewards. Availability Partnership Availability Partnership is an annual service that provides a fully customized plan to maintain and improve your availability levels over time and throughout changes. Availability Partnership offers these services: ECG064/1198