SYSTEMS
You can have the best applications, but you need a
consistent infrastructure to reap the benefits of those great
applications. An infrastructure with intermittent or complete failures
can cripple a company and jeopardize business or put it at risk.
A good infrastructure must also be aligned with a good architecture. Computer systems and applications are
ever-green by nature and thus a strong architecture should be defined to handle changes over time.
Although it may not be cost-effective to implement an infrastructure that
prevents failures from affecting your business, there are a set of solutions to
appropriately minimize the risk to a manageable level. For example:
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Periodic automatic backups (Tape backups)
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UPS (battery backup)
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Redundant components (disk drives, power supplies, servers, etc)
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Version control (manage multiple versions of files)
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Archival copies of data (Rewritable CDROMs)
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Disk/Partition image backups for desktops and server
There are several preventive measures with a reasonable investment that
will pay for themselves with the avoidance of a single outage:
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Benchmarking system and network performance
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Monitoring log files and disk space
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Regular disk checking (ScanDisk) and defragmentation
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Benchmarking system performance and monitoring/logging
To complete the line-up, key individuals should be trained for those tasks you'd like to retain in-house.
Your computers are a vital component of your business, thus you need to know that the in-house and external
support personnel will be there when you need them and possess the skills to solve issues in a timely fashion.
Automated Results provides a host of training classes to meet your needs.
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