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The best practice is to plan for as many failure scenarios as conceivable

Computing infrastructure outages occur for many reasons, including:

At the recent Collision from Home virtual conference, Sebastien Stormacq, Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS), explored design patterns to achieve high availability. AWS is a well-known supplier of cloud computing infrastructure. He said, Modern computing infrastructures embrace failure rather than trying to avoid it. Best practices systems are designed to handle and recover from unexpected conditions.

The best practices for minimizing outages and achieving high availability of applications focus on consciously planning for as many failure scenarios as conceivable. Below are practical measures that CIOs can implement to:

Migrate applications to the cloud

Most organizations struggle to achieve continuous high availability for their on-premise computing infrastructure. Its expensive to buy the components and then implement them. Its difficult to justify the wide range of technical specialists required to operate with high availability because most specialists are not needed full-time.

A better approach is to contract with the suppliers of cloud computing infrastructure. They have accumulated experience and work hard with capable technical teams to achieve often elusive high availability. Because these suppliers operate at a larger scale where the cost of technical specialists is amortized over many customers, the cost per customer and the results are attractive.

Buy failover services

Organizations can implement a failover environment for their on-premise computing infrastructure. However, implementing changes to applications and operating procedures to switch to the failover environment during an outage seamlessly can be challenging. Unfortunately, some organizations discover the gap in their configuration during the first outage with significant negative consequences.

A better approach is to buy one of the levels of failover service that suppliers of cloud computing infrastructure all offer. These automatic failover services often eliminate or at least minimize the impact of the following:

Architect applications for high availability

The post-incident review of computing infrastructure outages most often discovers:

Architecting applications for high availability typically includes the following features:

Upgrade your on-premise network

At many organizations, the on-premise network usually works reasonably well. However, it is at risk of outages due to the following:

Upgrade your on-premise network to achieve high availability even when you have migrated most of your applications to the cloud. Network upgrades to consider include:

Addressing the shortcomings in your computing infrastructure will keep your customer happy and preserve your reputation in our 24/7/365 world.

Yogi Schulz has over 40 years of information technology experience in various industries. Yogi works extensively in the petroleum industry. He manages projects that arise from changes in business requirements, the need to leverage technology opportunities, and mergers. His specialties include IT strategy, web strategy and project management.

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