North American Network Operators Group

Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: availability and resiliency

  • From: Andrew Bangs
  • Date: Fri Sep 29 12:46:04 2000

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:39:40PM -0600, Irwin Lazar wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does anyone know if a template exists for what it takes to provide 5 9's of
> availability, 4 9's etc.for Internet data centers?  Specifically I'm looking
> for something that would say "if you want 5 9's of availability, here's what
> you need to do", and so on.

For 5 9s you need:

1) Lots of money
2) Lots of clue
3) Lots of luck
4) Lots of balls

You can do 4 9s with any 3 of the above.


-- 
Andrew Bangs