Best Practices For Application Availability

Has this ever happened to your organization? You’re working on a critical project that needs to be completed by the end of the work day. It’s the afternoon and everyone on the team is scrambling to finish up. Just as you’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and are about to send the project to your boss, your email stops working. You can’t send anything, you can’t receive anything and more importantly, you can’t turn in your project. If you had a solid application availability solution in place, the result would have been much different. You could have sent your project to your boss without any trouble.

3 Tips for Application Availability

Ensuring that your organization has always on applications is a difficult task. Application availability is what every organization should seek to achieve, but it’s a lot easier said than done. To achieve application availability, not only do you have to have robust software solutions, but also a clear plan devised to minimize downtime of applications.

Eliminating or minimizing downtime can be accomplished by following these three application availability tips.

1. Don’t overlook remote location availability. It’s easy to have the “out of sight, out of mind” mentality with applications that aren’t located at your facility. No matter where your applications are located, you need a plan to protect all of your business applications.
2. Classify systems by criticality. With a myriad of applications that keep your business running, there are some that are more critical than others. To determine which applications are critical, perform a business impact analysis. You can do this by mapping the dependent systems for each business process and creating a rough estimate of the cost of downtime for each application. You should also identify the most probable types of downtime so that you can properly determine which applications need the most protection.
3. Develop tiers for availability. Using your business impact analysis research, you can tier applications. Tiering applications gives your organization the ability to offer protection based on their criticality.

With these application availability tips, your organization can enjoy reduced downtime, increased productivity and “always on” applications.

By: Marathon Technologies

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