Breaking the Availability Barrier - Survivable Systems for Enterprise Computing
This book describes the techniques that can be used today for extending the time between system failures from years to centuries, often at little or no additional cost.
About the Authors
The authors of the book, Dr. Bill Highleyman, Paul J. Holenstein, and Dr. Bruce Holenstein, have a combined experience of over 90 years in the implementation of fault-tolerant, highly available computing systems. This experience ranges from the early days of custom redundant systems to today’s fault-tolerant offerings from HP (NonStop) and Stratus. To learn more about the authors, click here.
New Volumes Available
Breaking the Availability Barrier, Volume II, Achieving Century Uptimes With Active-Active Systems and Breaking the Availability Barrier, Volume III, Active/Active Systems in Practice are now available for order. Click here for more information.
Sample chapter PDF's of Volume 1 chapters are posted below, download yours today!
 Breaking the Four 9's Barrier |
Table of Contents, Forward, About the Authors, and Chapter 1 |
| System Splitting |
Chapter 2 |
| Asynchronous Replication |
Chapter 3 |
| Synchronous Replication |
Chapter 4 |
| The Facts of Life |
Chapter 5 |
| RPO and RTO |
Chapter 6 |
| The Ultimate Architecture |
Chapter 7 |
| The Rules of Availability |
Chapter 8 |
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