How to ensure you do not

[attagirl]

How would you ensure that you do not have a data center outage. I know that there are several things that could cause a data center outage but what measures would you take to ensure that everything in your control is covered.

[KenB]

Easy. Just think of everything that might fail or require maintenance and have a failover scenario for it. Some organizations favor hardening a single site, but most have chosen to commoditize their IT workloads, virtualize their processing, storage and networking, cross-train their staffs and maintain multiple, geographically diverse data centers to minimize outages.

Simple, right?



Ken