About the Author
Andy Bailey is Availability Architect at Stratus Technologies. When not blogging about High Availability, Continuous Availability and Fault Tolerance, he enjoys fast cars and relaxing with his Pipe Organ.
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Survey Reveals Increased Downtime Risk, Suggesting Ultra-High Availability’s Time Has Come
Whilst this week’s RSA conference claims security is the thorn in cloud computing’s side, a recent Stratus Technologies and ITIC survey of 650 IT professionals...
Super Computers: Too Big To Fail?
“Just beware the shiny new servers with outrageous resources. You may ultimately create a monster that is literally too big to fail,” concludes Mark Vaughn...
Uptime: King Of The Cloud
Cloud computing is no longer some obscure concept, fit only for cocktail banter at Silicon Valley parties, according to The Motley Crew. Gartner, CDW and...
Is Active Active Worth It?
A great article on whether the cost of converting to Active Active is worth it in Availability Digest last month. Well worth reading. Active Active...
High Availability In The Decade To Come
Having made my predictions for the year to come before the recent inclement weather, I’ve been doing a bit of thinking. I wanted to join other...
High Availability Vital To Gordon Brown’s 2014 Vision
This week’s anti-Brown activities got me to thinking about Gordon’s announcement at the end of last year regarding the need to ensure all public services...
2010 Prediction? Cloudy With Growing Fault Tolerance
Well here we are at that time of the year when pundits begin to review the year gone and make their predictions for the year...
Airlines’ Fault Tolerance Found Flawed
Last Friday was a bad day for airlines. British Airways lost its website and didn’t know when it was coming back. Another airline, Flybe, lost its...
The Real Aim For Business Continuity
I came across this paper earlier this week, which shares one proven way to position business continuity management issues so that board members will listen....
Zero Tolerance On Misuse Of The Phrase ‘Fault Tolerant’
I’ve long been aware that misuse of the term “Fault Tolerant” (FT) “ is laying companies open to business risk and financial losses from system...
Tolerant? I Can Be! Ensuring Availability In A Virtualised Environment Is Simple
Fault tolerance in virtualised environments doesn’t get more exciting than this, according to a recent vox pox in The Register. I beg to differ. Rather...
Taking Stock: Two London Stock Exchange Outages In One Month, At What Cost?
A technical fault in a London Stock Exchange (LSE) server caused trading to falter on nearly 300 stocks for an hour and a half on...
