SOA Research Library

No longer are natural disasters the only significant danger to today's technology-laden world. IT managers must be also be prepared for technical failures, system migrations and human error. An informed manager should methodically approach this downtime potential by developing a thoughtful, coherent plan. HP's downtime cost model goes a long way in organizing and developing this plan. The added development of downtime costs given four server architectures and their availability percentages further focuses the analysis that there are numerous technologies available and the ultimate decision should be based on the cost of the solution as compared to the cost of downtime for that architectural solution.