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Andy Bailey

@AndyStratus

30 years in IT, fast cars and the King of Instruments. Availability Architect at Stratus Technologies considering HA/ CA.

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Joined October 2009
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Fault tolerance and shared nothing migration wp.me/pGhmn-Iq

Fault tolerance and shared nothing migration

With Windows 2012, there is a great new facility referred to as “Shared Nothing Live Migration”. This is marketed as a mobility solution, as to opposed to anything associated with high availability…

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Just the ticket – true Total Cost of Ownership wp.me/pGhmn-Il
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The 10 Coolest Servers Of 2014 (So Far) wp.me/pGhmn-Ia

The 10 Coolest Servers Of 2014 (So Far)

Checkout the 10 Coolest Servers Of 2014 (So Far). Especially this page.

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The more complex the environment, the longer it will take to rectify or recover from downtime wp.me/pGhmn-I7

The more complex the environment, the longer it will take to rectify or recover from downtime

So says Pieter can der Merwe of Stratus technologies – I couldn’t agree more. I am bewildered why corporates and IT departments naturally veer towards complex systems thinking that in s…

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Worry more……..if your workload is in the cloud wp.me/pGhmn-I4
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Is 99% availability good? wp.me/pGhmn-I0

Is 99% availability good?

99% sounds pretty complete in theory, but imagine if only 99% of your orders shipped. For IT, 99% availability translates into 1 hour and 41 minutes of downtime per week. That’s about twice t…

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Software Defined Availability HOT TOPIC! wp.me/pGhmn-HV

Software Defined Availability HOT TOPIC!

Great Forbes article here focusing on the growing requirements in our society for “fast impact” – this means anything from ATM to software-based solutions that businesses use to capital…

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Read the fine print wp.me/pGhmn-HP

Read the fine print

It has always been said that you should read the fine print. When it comes to cloud or hosted services, you definitely must. I remain dismayed that services peddled with 100% availability rarely me…

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The move from hardware to software based fault tolerance wp.me/pGhmn-HL

The move from hardware to software based fault tolerance

A noteworthy article that deliberates the shifting trends of hardware fault tolerance to software fault tolerance and what is realistically achievable today. Particularly relevant for those organis…

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Joint Reference Architecture with IBM wp.me/pGhmn-HH

Joint Reference Architecture with IBM

This is something that should be of interest! It’s clear to IBM and others, that in an Always-On world, having the highest levels of availability is not a ‘nice to have’ but a ‘must have’. Here are…

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"Happiness" vs "Meaningfulness": The Surprising Difference lnkd.in/du5he6Q
"Happiness" vs "Meaningfulness" -- The Surprising Difference

"Happiness" vs "Meaningfulness" -- The Surprising Difference

Ever wonder whether it’s better to pursue a happy or meaningful life? This article by Clifton Parker unveils what a Stanford faculty expert discovered in her research. While lives of meaningfulness...

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2014 predictions wp.me/pGhmn-HC

2014 predictions

Its getting near to that time of year when everyone writes tech predictions. Well I’m not going to. Instead have a read of this which was written by one of my colleagues – Executive Vie…

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Did the elastic snap? wp.me/pGhmn-Hy

Did the elastic snap?

Cloud is a good – there are very few people that would argue with this. I have always wondered though, how long it would be before the demands outstripped the supply. One of the big selling p…

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Its XBOX day wp.me/pGhmn-Ht

Its XBOX day

Its worldwide Xbox launch day! However, it has not all been plain sailing as Microsoft Windows Azure services have been down which also took down Microsoft’s key service ‘Xbox Live̵…

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