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High Availability

Today’s enterprise operates in an extremely complex and a highly networked, global economy with more susceptibility to interruptions than in the past. The cost of interruptions or downtime varies across industries and can be as much as millions of dollars an hour.

While that number is staggering, the reasons are quite obvious. The Internet will bring millions of customers directly to the electronic storefronts on a daily basis. Critical and interdependent business matters such as customers’ relationships, competitive advantages, legal obligations, industry reputation and shareholder confidence are even more critical now because of their increased vulnerability to business disruptions and downtimes.

When your organization designs its business continuity strategy, the resulting business continuity plan must effectively deal with these challenges. One of the critical requirements of such a plan focuses on protecting business data, because data is one of the most critical company assets. Should your organization lose its data, replacing data will likely be an extremely expensive and onerous — if not an impossible task — critically affecting your organization’s ability to stay in business.

Guident can help your business create the optimal business continuity plan. With our extensive experience in designing, deploying and administering large scale, highly available systems, we will work with your organization to determine what combination of high availability solutions is most appropriate for your business needs. Whether a clustered solution, a geographically redundant configuration, a failover architecture or a replicated environment, Guident will be at the forefront of the needed expertise to satisfy your business needs.

Guident’s high-availability service offerings include:

• Real Application Clusters (RAC)
• DataGuard
• Geographic Redundancy
• Replication

Key implementation principles

• Quick Time to Deliver — Guident provides clients a “Quick Win” (usually 90-120 days per phase) so users quickly realize benefits, while applying lessons learned in future phases
• User Involvement — Guident engages the user community from the get- go and presents an analytical solution they can “touch and see” early in the development lifecycle
• Allow Evolving Requirements — Business users can identify many requirements, but once they realize the capabilities of the software tool, they may quickly think of additional functionality and data requirements