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Public
safety answering points have a 24x7x365 schedule. They must be
operational 100% of the time. After all, lives and reputations are on
the line. PSAPs can’t afford lost time if the server that hosts their
CAD, ANI, ALI and other key systems goes down. A typical off-the-shelf
server provides an uptime level of 99%, which sounds great until you do
the math. Ninety-nine percent availability works out to an average
annual downtime of almost four days. That’s 87 hours and 40 minutes to
be exact. And, you don’t get to choose those hours.
This webcast will discuss the whys and hows of making sure your
servers are up to the demands of a PSAP environment. Strategies to
maximize the availability of mission-critical applications and minimize
the possibility of disruptions caused by server failure that will be
discussed include the advantages and disadvantages of:
- Off-the-shelf and hardened servers;
- Cluster technology;
- Virtualization;
- Fault-tolerant hardware; and
- High-availability software.
Speaker
Daniel Kusnetzky
Daniel Kusnetzky is a distinguished analyst and founder of the Kusnetzky
Group LLC, where he is responsible for research, publications, and
operations. Kusnetzky has been involved with information technology
since the late 1970s and is a well-known author of IT industry research,
insight and opinion. Before founding Kusnetzky Group, he held positions
as the vice president of Research Services at The 451 Group, executive
vice president of Corporate and Marketing Strategy at Open-Xchange, vice
president of System Software Research at International Data
Corporation, and Intel/UNIX business manager at Digital Equipment
Corporation. |
Sponsor
Hundreds
of public safety and government agencies worldwide rely on Stratus to
keep their mission-critical applications up and running 24x7x365. Our
fault-tolerant servers and high availability software provide uptime
assurance for applications including computer aided dispatch (CAD),
records management systems (RMS), mobile communications and more. For
more information, visit www.stratus.com. |