Tuesday, March 09, 2010

In today’s data-driven world, it is essential to understand High Availability concepts, practices, and the impact of HA on your business. With many HA technologies to choose from, striking a balance between benefit and cost is essential to ensuring practicality in an HA investment. Rather than investing time and money in an effort to squeeze as much availability out of a poorly implemented system, companies should wisely invest resources in preplanning an HA solution that suits their business requirements. PTI has provided expert IT consulting services for over ten years and has witnessed the devastating effects that a poorly chosen and poorly implemented HA solution can have on a business. Using proven IT best practices and evaluations based on your business needs, PTI’s High Availability Planning engineers design fault-tolerant IT infrastructures ensuring the continuity of your business operations and providing the availability, stability, and scalability that your users expect.

From HA planning to HA implementation and on-going support, PTI has experts to assist in the following areas:
   Hardware Cluster Architecture
   Storage Management
   Databases
   Network Infrastructure
   Disaster Recovery Planning

   Oracle
    - Real Application Clusters (RAC)
    - Data Guard
    - Recovery Manager (RMAN)
    - Flashback Technologies
    - Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
    - LogMiner™
    - Cross-Platform Transportable Tablespace
    - Online Reorganization
    - Fail Safe/Failover Clusters
    - Advanced Queueing
    - Oracle Streams
    - Oracle Replication

   SQL Server
    - Failover Clustering
    - Database Mirroring
    - Log Shipping
    - Replication