AITP of Southern New England

April 2000 Meeting

Planning and Implementing High Availability Systems

Speaker: Mark Limbert, Lighthouse Computer Services, Inc.

No one could have anticipated the impact that the Internet would have on IT systems. Today, it is all about uptime, and uptime now mean twenty four hours a day seven days a week. This presentation will cover key topics to consider in planning and implementing High Availability solutions in a distributed systems environment including:

High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance - the differences and the misconceptions
Levels of High Availability - the ability to recover
Business decisions - how to select of the right level of High
Availability for the cost
Potential solution scenarios
"Case Study" examples

Mark Limbert is the director of High Availability Solutions for Lighthouse Computer Services, Inc. in Lincoln, Rhode Island. He is currently responsible for evaluating new technology and developing availability solutions for new and existing customers. He works with a services team to implement IT projects that businesses rely upon for their very survival. Mark has been involved with designing and implementing high availability solutions for eight out of his ten years in the information systems field.