Combining high availability and disaster recovery solutions for critical IT environments

  • Authors:
  • D. Clitherow;M. Brookbanks;N. Clayton;G. Spear

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM United Kingdom Limited, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK;IBM United Kingdom Limited, London, UK;IBM United Kingdom Limited, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK;IBM Corporation, Tucson, AZ

  • Venue:
  • IBM Systems Journal
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper discusses high availability and disaster recovery solutions and their differences and presents the concepts and technical details of various solutions that combine them for highly critical environments. It discusses the business and regulatory issues that are driving the requirements for these solutions and presents various data center topologies that customers are choosing when implementing 3-site solutions.