White Paper
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October 1998
ECG064/1198
Prepared by
Custom
Systems
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.
