Ensuring Availability of Remote Systems

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Submitted by Moderator | 10/8/2007 6:43pm

Increasingly, government agencies are deploying mission critical applications in remote locations. Downtime, even for scheduled maintenance and upgrades, can be debilitating. Stratus’ recent white paper Ensure the Availability of Critical IT Solutions in Remote Government Locations outlines the challenges.

While IT systems in government data centers are administered and maintained by an experienced IT staff 24/7, systems in remote locations lack such dedicated support. Operational simplicity, remote support capabilities and ease of maintenance and repair are critically important for achieving continuous availability in remote environments — and provide the added benefit of reducing overall costs.

What are your views? What steps are you taking to ensure the availability of your mission critical applications in remote locations?

Comments

Comment by Neil Tomlinson | 1/3/2008 11:03pm

Through our relationship with Stratus Technologies, ESRI is able to offer the GIS community the most Fault Tolerant, High Availability server solutions for ArcGIS Server applications. Our users with mission critical applications such as public safety or telecommunications face tremendous challenges on a daily basis and should not have to worry about server down time. Stratus ftServer systems have consistently delivered better than 99.999% uptime in hardware performance for mission critical GIS applications.

Neil Tomlinson
ESRI Hardware Solutions
ntomlinson@esri.com
909-793-2853

Comment by Kevin Radican | 1/3/2008 4:15pm

This is an excellent whitepaper.
Once the total cost of ownership is explained and the reduction in footprint and maintenance is realized it is hard to argue for a clustered solution. Many federal agencies are beginning to realize this.

Kevin P. Radican
Director of Technology Sales
Premier Technical Services Corporation
312 East Main Street
Luray, Va. 22835
540-743-5700
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Comment by Anonymous | 1/2/2008 7:40pm

Our agency is finally realizing the hidden costs associated with clustering, as compared to fault-tolerant servers.

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