[THIN] Re: OT: new book concept, looking for feedback

  • From: Christopher_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:55:39 -0600

Ron,

I like the idea.  I don't know if anyone else has tackled the subject in 
this manner.  I would be interested in the "how-to's" as well as the 
evaluation process for determining when high availability is required, and 
when it's overkilll (i.e. expense for redundancy, greater than real risk 
from down time).  Although business requirements should be dictated by 
management/customers, it is not always done clearly or rationally.  Some 
of us in the "recommender" role could use this type of resource for 
convincing management/"decision makers" of the real implications of their 
decisions or indecision on these matters. 

My $.02,

Christopher 




"Ron Oglesby" <roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Just looking to get some feed back on a new concept for a book.

The idea is to write a book about building high availability systems.
From the network level (WAN,LAN) up through the servers, their hardware,
NAS/SAN, client access etc. Should include, webs servers, Database
servers, file and print, load balancing and cluster technologies, and of
course methods to recover from different types of failures on different
systems.

Is this something that people would want? A look at how to make X, Y,
and Z on their network high availability. Taking a holistic approach as
it were, not just looking at any one specific technology but instead
creating a roadmap for the entire environment, defining what recovery,
fault tolerance and high availability really are, then discussing how to
design and implement for the business requirement?

Any other thoughts as to what someone would like to see in a book like
this or if it would even get bought?

Ron Oglesby
Senior Technical Architect
Microsoft MVP, Windows Server 
 
RapidApp
Office 312.372.7188
Mobile 815.325.7618
email roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 

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