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Re: availability and resiliency

  • From: Lionel Lauer
  • Date: Fri Sep 29 12:56:20 2000 
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:39:04 +0100, Andrew Bangs <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>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.

Too true.

But you forgot to include 'halfway-clued management' - without that you
haven't got a hope in hell of even getting three 9's. ;)

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