What IT companies will not (can not) tell you. The 100% business continuity solution.

Technology - Without it, the business world would collapse. Unfortunately, with technology it can also be expensive and at times, unreliable. Our purpose is to explain to you a few ways some clients have eliminated a main expensive component in their business – Downtime, planned or unplanned. A seemingly unsolvable and major setback for business and Administrators alike that has indeed been the cause for a business to;

1. File bankruptcy within six months of a crash

2. Loss of clients/patients

3. Loss of thousands if not millions of dollars annually

4. Loss of jobs and inadvertently causing an organization to downsize

5. loss of data and the enormous cost to repair that data – if that is possible

6. and most importantly, the enormous stress on the company and the techs who work so hard to attempt to keep your systems online.

What are the solutions? Well today’s standards might ask you to buy an overpriced cluster solution that still only gives 99.9% up-time. That still is almost nine hours of down time yearly. On researching the reliability of a cluster, we talked to many clients using cluster solutions and one thing they honestly admit that they have no idea the system will even kick in if there is a situation that calls for it. We are not including the scripting, management, hardware cost, multiple Operating Systems (OS) and applications, amongst other factors. There are many “solutions” which is a joke when you are the one responsible for your systems staying up.

“Well that is all that is available right? I mean, we can’t afford to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars like the big companies for a state of the art systems.” The truth is even big corporations are loosing incredible amount of money, data security and their best technicians are still at a loss trying to engineer a workable solution. Sure you can use Unix or Solaris but that is a software solution and that still does not handle the hardware side of the problem. a

This is where I come in. I feel for business and especially the techs. These guys are the heartbeat of companies and they still get very little respect and even less pay for their brilliant resolve. However, you would be shocked at companies that are sold into a solution and terrified of change. Personally I do not lose any sleep if a company doesn’t use a new technology or at least research what is out there– their competitors will. They can reduce their operating cost, increase their production rate and in many cases both. In many situations this percentage is over 50%!

I am sure you know this, but technology utilized properly should make your company much more capital in return. After all, is the purpose of investing in any technology also the same reason why you invest in the first place, to make money? To the degree and quality one outflows his time, money etc. will be proportionate to what he inflows. While this universal basic philosophy of life holds true, competence, ingenuity and the ability hold your ground and succeed separates those who succeed and become powerful and those who do not. With this said, in intelligent hands, technology can do amazing things but in the wrong hand’s it can destroy a business and even lives. However, we all agree it takes money to make money but let me show you some ways to help you with all of that. Here are some ways to profit using technology.

Let us take a server. Although IT companies will never admit it, they count on two things to happen.

Downtime

Servers go down and this is very common. We all agree downtime (the time the server is down or inoperable or inaccessible) does indeed cause a business lose money, lose clients and can even inadvertently cost lives, we have all agreed on that. We also we have agreed that repairing any data loss and the other problems associated with downtime, to financial loss and bad PR from losing clients (and lost clients) because you could not service them when they needed it is very, very bad.

Well I have some great news for you!

There are a couple of very workable solutions for mission critical servers that we found about that is very affordable.

1. The true definition of Fault Tolerant servers.

While there are many servers that claim to be fault tolerant, I only found one that is truly a 100% FT server! We are not talking about a mirrored disk or a HD RAID but the whole box. We found a server that does not have one single point of failure! Imagine a whole box that is Fault Tolerant! We also have a written guarantee of 99.999% up-time!

2. Your client needs and can have 99.999% up-time at 100% availability. What does that mean?

It means that you will have more chances on winning the lottery then having your server go down. Most redundant and “protected” servers have at the best 99.9%. This is the famous cluster solution. This breaks down to about 8hrs and 45 minutes. WOW! That is actually horrific and the accepted standard for a lot of companies. That is unacceptable for my clients and if your company has just as much critical data that just can’t be down this obviously isn’t a good solution.

So you can see that a server that has 99.999% up time giving a company 100% business continuity will save your company thousands if not millions of dollars annually, precious time and greatly increase employee production. Most importantly, it will secure you clients faith in the ability of your company. As far as I know there isn’t anyone that wants to hear – “sorry, but we can’t service you cause our servers are down.” But I could be wrong!

3. Active upgrade

Can you imagine if you can test all your patches, updates and upgrades before you install? If those new updates are suspected to cause problems, you can “rollback” to the previous setting. How much money and time will that save you? Let us just say that most companies spend thousands of dollars every year to have a special department or unit to just test patches, updates and upgrades not to mention repairing a down server if those updates do not work. Do not forget – although you need to reboot to install these updates – your client still has 100% availability!

4. The NEC Fault Tolerant server supports many Operating systems (OS) through virtualization if needed. Developing World Class Enterprise Agility: How to Manage Radical Transformation
Most of the strength of the U.S. economy has been built on capital, technology, natural resources, and information, while markets were relatively captive. It's no longer this way. Foreign competition has challenging companies more so than ever before. New ways to compete are being be devised. In response to competitive pressures, many companies are working on improvements with process, quality, automation, and information systems. Each of these improvements is on the path to becoming a high performance company. One other element can make a substantial difference: the strategic development of the corporate infrastructure around agility.Substantial market share has been lost over the years to foreign competitors. No industry is immune. New markets and partnerships on a global scale are forming. The pressure is on to be nothing but the best. The key to the future lies in reengineering the entire business-- both physically and logically- -for agility.Taking dramatic steps to become agile is necesa cluster, we talked to many clients using cluster solutions and one thing they honestly admit that they have no idea the system will even kick in if there is a situation that calls for it. We are not including the scripting, management, hardware cost, multiple Operating Systems (OS) and applications, amongst other factors. There are many “solutions” which is a joke when you are the one responsible for your systems staying up.

“Well that is all that is available right? I mean, we can’t afford to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars like the big companies for a state of the art systems.” The truth is even big corporations are loosing incredible amount of money, data security and their best technicians are still at a loss trying to engineer a workable solution. Sure you can use Unix or Solaris but that is a software solution and that still does not handle the hardware side of the problem. a

This is where I come in. I feel for business and especially the techs. These guys are the heartbeat of companies and they still get very little respect and even less pay for their brilliant resolve. However, you would be shocked at companies that are sold into a solution and terrified of change. Personally I do not lose any sleep if a company doesn’t use a new technology or at least research what is out there– their competitors will. They can reduce their operating cost, increase their production rate and in many cases both. In many situations this percentage is over 50%!

I am sure you know this, but technology utilized properly should make your company much more capital in return. After all, is the purpose of investing in any technology also the same reason why you invest in the first place, to make money? To the degree and quality one outflows his time, money etc. will be proportionate to what he inflows. While this universal basic philosophy of life holds true, competence, ingenuity and the ability hold your ground and succeed separates those who succeed and become powerful and those who do not. With this said, in intelligent hands, technology can do amazing things but in the wrong hand’s it can destroy a business and even lives. However, we all agree it takes money to make money but let me show you some ways to help you with all of that. Here are some ways to profit using technology.

Let us take a server. Although IT companies will never admit it, they count on two things to happen.

Downtime

Servers go down and this is very common. We all agree downtime (the time the server is down or inoperable or inaccessible) does indeed cause a business lose money, lose clients and can even inadvertently cost lives, we have all agreed on that. We also we have agreed that repairing any data loss and the other problems associated with downtime, to financial loss and bad PR from losing clients (and lost clients) because you could not service them when they needed it is very, very bad.

Well I have some great news for you!

There are a couple of very workable solutions for mission critical servers that we found about that is very affordable.

1. The true definition of Fault Tolerant servers.

While there are many servers that claim to be fault tolerant, I only found one that is truly a 100% FT server! We are not talking about a mirrored disk or a HD RAID but the whole box. We found a server that does not have one single point of failure! Imagine a whole box that is Fault Tolerant! We also have a written guarantee of 99.999% up-time!

2. Your client needs and can have 99.999% up-time at 100% availability. What does that mean?

It means that you will have more chances on winning the lottery then having your server go down. Most redundant and “protected” servers have at the best 99.9%. This is the famous cluster solution. This breaks down to about 8hrs and 45 minutes. WOW! That is actually horrific and the accepted standard for a lot of companies. That is unacceptable for my clients and if your company has just as much critical data that just can’t be down this obviously isn’t a good solution.

So you can see that a server that has 99.999% up time giving a company 100% business continuity will save your company thousands if not millions of dollars annually, precious time and greatly increase employee production. Most importantly, it will secure you clients faith in the ability of your company. As far as I know there isn’t anyone that wants to hear – “sorry, but we can’t service you cause our servers are down.” But I could be wrong!

3. Active upgrade

Can you imagine if you can test all your patches, updates and upgrades before you install? If those new updates are suspected to cause problems, you can “rollback” to the previous setting. How much money and time will that save you? Let us just say that most companies spend thousands of dollars every year to have a special department or unit to just test patches, updates and upgrades not to mention repairing a down server if those updates do not work. Do not forget – although you need to reboot to install these updates – your client still has 100% availability!

4. The NEC Fault Tolerant server supports many Operating systems (OS) through virtualization if needed. Refinancing May Bring In A Lot of Benefits
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I am sure you know this, but technology utilized properly should make your company much more capital in return. After all, is the purpose of investing in any technology also the same reason why you invest in the first place, to make money? To the degree and quality one outflows his time, money etc. will be proportionate to what he inflows. While this universal basic philosophy of life holds true, competence, ingenuity and the ability hold your ground and succeed separates those who succeed and become powerful and those who do not. With this said, in intelligent hands, technology can do amazing things but in the wrong hand’s it can destroy a business and even lives. However, we all agree it takes money to make money but let me show you some ways to help you with all of that. Here are some ways to profit using technology.

Let us take a server. Although IT companies will never admit it, they count on two things to happen.

Downtime

Servers go down and this is very common. We all agree downtime (the time the server is down or inoperable or inaccessible) does indeed cause a business lose money, lose clients and can even inadvertently cost lives, we have all agreed on that. We also we have agreed that repairing any data loss and the other problems associated with downtime, to financial loss and bad PR from losing clients (and lost clients) because you could not service them when they needed it is very, very bad.

Well I have some great news for you!

There are a couple of very workable solutions for mission critical servers that we found about that is very affordable.

1. The true definition of Fault Tolerant servers.

While there are many servers that claim to be fault tolerant, I only found one that is truly a 100% FT server! We are not talking about a mirrored disk or a HD RAID but the whole box. We found a server that does not have one single point of failure! Imagine a whole box that is Fault Tolerant! We also have a written guarantee of 99.999% up-time!

2. Your client needs and can have 99.999% up-time at 100% availability. What does that mean?

It means that you will have more chances on winning the lottery then having your server go down. Most redundant and “protected” servers have at the best 99.9%. This is the famous cluster solution. This breaks down to about 8hrs and 45 minutes. WOW! That is actually horrific and the accepted standard for a lot of companies. That is unacceptable for my clients and if your company has just as much critical data that just can’t be down this obviously isn’t a good solution.

So you can see that a server that has 99.999% up time giving a company 100% business continuity will save your company thousands if not millions of dollars annually, precious time and greatly increase employee production. Most importantly, it will secure you clients faith in the ability of your company. As far as I know there isn’t anyone that wants to hear – “sorry, but we can’t service you cause our servers are down.” But I could be wrong!

3. Active upgrade

Can you imagine if you can test all your patches, updates and upgrades before you install? If those new updates are suspected to cause problems, you can “rollback” to the previous setting. How much money and time will that save you? Let us just say that most companies spend thousands of dollars every year to have a special department or unit to just test patches, updates and upgrades not to mention repairing a down server if those updates do not work. Do not forget – although you need to reboot to install these updates – your client still has 100% availability!

4. The NEC Fault Tolerant server supports many Operating systems (OS) through virtualization if needed. Are You Located in Australia? Confused by the Import Rules? Not Surprised!
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Well I have some great news for you!

There are a couple of very workable solutions for mission critical servers that we found about that is very affordable.

1. The true definition of Fault Tolerant servers.

While there are many servers that claim to be fault tolerant, I only found one that is truly a 100% FT server! We are not talking about a mirrored disk or a HD RAID but the whole box. We found a server that does not have one single point of failure! Imagine a whole box that is Fault Tolerant! We also have a written guarantee of 99.999% up-time!

2. Your client needs and can have 99.999% up-time at 100% availability. What does that mean?

It means that you will have more chances on winning the lottery then having your server go down. Most redundant and “protected” servers have at the best 99.9%. This is the famous cluster solution. This breaks down to about 8hrs and 45 minutes. WOW! That is actually horrific and the accepted standard for a lot of companies. That is unacceptable for my clients and if your company has just as much critical data that just can’t be down this obviously isn’t a good solution.

So you can see that a server that has 99.999% up time giving a company 100% business continuity will save your company thousands if not millions of dollars annually, precious time and greatly increase employee production. Most importantly, it will secure you clients faith in the ability of your company. As far as I know there isn’t anyone that wants to hear – “sorry, but we can’t service you cause our servers are down.” But I could be wrong!

3. Active upgrade

Can you imagine if you can test all your patches, updates and upgrades before you install? If those new updates are suspected to cause problems, you can “rollback” to the previous setting. How much money and time will that save you? Let us just say that most companies spend thousands of dollars every year to have a special department or unit to just test patches, updates and upgrades not to mention repairing a down server if those updates do not work. Do not forget – although you need to reboot to install these updates – your client still has 100% availability!

4. The NEC Fault Tolerant server supports many Operating systems (OS) through virtualization if needed. Are You Trading or Are You Gambling?
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So you can see that a server that has 99.999% up time giving a company 100% business continuity will save your company thousands if not millions of dollars annually, precious time and greatly increase employee production. Most importantly, it will secure you clients faith in the ability of your company. As far as I know there isn’t anyone that wants to hear – “sorry, but we can’t service you cause our servers are down.” But I could be wrong!

3. Active upgrade

Can you imagine if you can test all your patches, updates and upgrades before you install? If those new updates are suspected to cause problems, you can “rollback” to the previous setting. How much money and time will that save you? Let us just say that most companies spend thousands of dollars every year to have a special department or unit to just test patches, updates and upgrades not to mention repairing a down server if those updates do not work. Do not forget – although you need to reboot to install these updates – your client still has 100% availability!

4. The NEC Fault Tolerant server supports many Operating systems (OS) through virtualization if needed.

If needed you can also have multiple OS’s on one server via a virtual environment instead of buying a multitude of additional servers. These machines will even automatically reboot the OS/application in an attempt to get the software back online. Again, there is still 100% availability!

5. Remote management

Lights out computing; Are you vacationing in France? With remote management you will be instantly notified when a clients FT Server is having issues. Note: To this date there have never been any reports of these servers having any problems.

6. These also are all hot swappable HD’s.

7. These servers run a little more expensive then a regular GP (general purpose) server but far less than a cluster solution.

8. There are many additional benefits and features that are very impressive but my job isn’t to sell you – it’s to educate you that downtime is yesterdays news. The technology is unbelievable, it's new and it works. Of course unless you like yeaterdays gear you will need this to get ahead.

With this said, how much is it to you to finally eradicate downtime?? Do you really want you competition to have this technology before you? Can you see that putting your resources from slow, expensive and unreliable servers to the right equipment will let your techs work on the other important projects (other than downtime)? Do you understand that financial resources you could use for expanding your company and most importantly – the restored faith your clients will have in you?

Good luck!

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