High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Concepts, Design, Implementation [Hardcover]

Klaus Schmidt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 11, 2006 | ISBN-10: 3540244603 | ISBN-13: 978-3540244608 | Edition: 1

Companies and institutions depend more than ever on the availability of their Information Technology, and most mission critical business processes are IT-based. Business Continuity is the ability to do business under any circumstances and is an essential requirement faced by modern companies. Both concepts - High Availability and Disaster Recovery - are realized by redundant systems. This book presents requirements, concepts, and realizations of redundant systems on all abstraction levels, and all given examples refer to UNIX and Linux Systems.

Editorial Reviews

Review

From the reviews: "The book’s goal is to explain how to insure that IT services are available when needed, while keeping a good balance between their benefits and the cost to support them. … the book has as its target audience several groups: architects and system developers/designers for DR/BC/HA solution specifications … . The text is very clear, and includes 83 figures with detailed explanations, 26 tables, references, and a ten-page index. … All of these features make the book very practical and attractive." (Mihail Sadeanu, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (4), April, 2008)

From the Back Cover

Companies and other organizations depend more than ever on the availability of their Information Technology, and most mission critical business processes are IT-based processes. Business continuity is the ability to do business under any circumstances and is an essential requirement modern companies are facing. High availability and disaster recovery are contributions of the IT to fulfill this requirement. And companies will be confronted with such demands to an even greater extent in the future, since their credit ratings will be lower without such precautions. Both, high availability and disaster recovery,  are realized by redundant systems. Redundancy can and should be implemented on different abstraction levels: from the hardware, the operating system and middleware components up to the backup computing center in case of a disaster. This book presents requirements, concepts, and realizations of redundant systems on all abstraction levels, and all given examples refer to UNIX and Linux systems.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 422 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540244603
• ISBN-13: 978-3540244608
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #971,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Conceptually very good, Methodology too, May 30, 2007

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Juan Alamo Elias (Santiago, Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Concepts, Design, Implementation (Hardcover)

This is my first book about this matter. Although I have some experience implementing solution with HA/DR requirements, this book was very clarifier. Topics are conceptually clear and also this proposes a good methodology to face HA/DR requirements.

You will get some technical details about components that allow implement HA/DR, however it is not in deep. Don't think you will get a comercial product review. This is not the target.

It is a very good book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Paperback vs Hardcover, September 19, 2011

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Jane - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Concepts, Design, Implementation (Paperback)

There are two formats for this book. Paperback is a reprint of hardcover 1st ed. The hardcover's lowest price is now $23.16, while the paperback costs at least $71.97 which is more than three times of hardcover format (ISBN: 3540244603).

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, November 28, 2007

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Mr. Kenley C. Vogt "kcventures" (Penfield, New York 14526) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Concepts, Design, Implementation (Hardcover)

My orginal DR guide was lost in a basement flood, I was looking for a replacement for my desk libary at work. There was some math (statistics)on availablity / reliablity that was a little hard to follow - my college math is quite rusty, but it was nicly summerized in a graph format, so I could follow it. The network and data center sections are very well done.