- Disaster Tolerance Technology Solutions
The concept of a Disaster Tolerance Practice may be ahead of the curve
but it is not complex. Simply stated, it is applying technology
solutions to meet the business continuity and recovery needs of
companies and government agencies. As part of an overall continuity
plan, disaster tolerance means preparedness and protection for your
business.
John Mahon, distinguished professor of management at the University
of Maine School of Business, says the survival of a company is tied to
how it responds to a crisis. According to Dr. Mahon, companies need to
be flexible and prepared for abnormal contingencies.
The first component of our Disaster Tolerance Practice is assessment.
This should encompass the entire infrastructure (applications, servers,
networks) as well as the people and processes used to implement the
technology. It is also important to take a holistic approach to
understanding the cost of downtime in terms of lost dollars and lost
productivity. Failures of hardware, operating systems, or databases can
be mission-critical (affecting data or transactional activity) or
business-critical (affecting customer relations).
We also take a solutions approach to deploying the right technology
for both high availability and assured availability (also referred to as
continuous or non-stop). And we’re not talking about reliability; when a
reliable system is unavailable for end-users that equates to downtime.
There are five categories (designated as the 5 T’s) that make up
disaster tolerance technology:
- Security tolerance
- Management tolerance
- Recovery tolerance
- Geo tolerance
- Fault tolerance
Products from each of the 5 T’s make up the total Disaster Tolerance
Technology Solution.
Our goal is to assess and deploy the best technology to prepare and
protect your business from any failures that affect business services.
“failure to prepare is preparing to fail”
John Wooden, hall-of-fame
college coach
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