Links List 3.7.08

Posted March 7th, 2008 by Joe Pendry

Todd Hoff posted about cloud computing and managing downtime risk by connecting multiple data centers into a secure virtual LAN. He says that “true high availability requires a presence in multiple data centers. The recent downtime of even a high quality operation like Amazon makes this need all the more clear.”

The IT Skeptic is a big fan of the People Process Technology, which makes us happy. On the same topic, Troy DuMoulin posted about his presentation, discussing its challenges and problems.

ITIL v3 demand management is discussed by Serge Thorn. He describes the processes’ objectives and key elements.

A recent study in the UK finds that 20% of IT businesses do NOT have a disaster recovery plan in place. The findings suggest a major oversight on the part of some major organisations to understand the risks associated with IT downtime.

Doug McClure has a guest post from Steve Henning on the need for real-time analytics. The complexity of rapidly growing infrastructures, multiple servers, virtualization and SOA technologies and the constant pressure to keep IT budgets low creates a problem with business service performance and availability issues. According to Steve, “real time analytics-based solutions that leverage existing monitoring infrastructures are a necessity in today’s environment.”