Re: High availability questions

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lurton,

I agree that there are situations where 24/7 is a necessity.  Like a 
hospital pharmacy where the wrong dose, or interaction, or a four hour
delay because of unexpected down time could cause death.  I know I
wouldn't trust the last printed report as a backup, IMHO they are
worthless before the ink dries.

I'm sure that someone in your company worked out the numbers and decided
that the one time in x years that your AS/400 went down it was worth the
<100k + redundant AS/400 + communications.

But for a lot of companies the cost of 24/7 is not justifiable in either
lost revenue opportunities or damaged reputation.

As you said, you never had to use it in real life.  I guess whatever
let's the powers to be sleep easy is really all the justification
necessary.


Lurton Keel wrote:
> 
> I disagree about the necessity of 24/7.
<<snip>>
> 10 minutes of down time was totally unacceptable.
> We implemented Vision Solutions to a backup AS/400 across town.
<<snip>>
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