Building a Disaster-proof Data Center with HP Serviceguard for Linux, June 2007

Conclusion

The business-continuity and availability solutions of HP empower

customers to improve their business performance and protect their

corporate reputations with resilient IT.

The health of your business depends on access to critical IT services and information. Virtually any

amount of IT downtime can mean lost productivity, lost revenue, lost customers, lost opportunities. That

means you need to be prepared for the full range of threats to the availability and stability of your

core infrastructure. Threats ranging from communications disruptions, application problems, and

unexpected peaks in customer traffic to full-scale disasters.

For example, The National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) of Switzerland oversees the

country’s preparation, monitoring, and response to a wide range of natural and manmade crises—

including floods; earthquakes; and nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. The agency must be

able to physically accommodate frequent and rapid increases in staff during training and crises. In

addition, NEOC must be able to stay in constant communication with each of Switzerland’s 26

cantons and several technical services such as the Swiss Seismological Institute. The organization also

links to numerous environmental monitoring stations that measure weather and radiological data

across the country and in neighboring countries. The ability of the NEOC to fulfill its mission depends

directly on the availability, responsiveness, and flexibility of its IT infrastructure. HP Cluster Extension

and HP Serviceguard for Linux are the critical Linux portion of NEOCs overall multi-OS disaster

tolerant solution that ensures the center can meet its objectives during times of crisis.

HP provides proven strategies, services, and technologies to reduce your exposure and vulnerability,

help protect your mission-critical operations against diverse downtime threats, and ease your recovery

if an unforeseeable catastrophe strikes. HP offers a comprehensive portfolio of disaster-tolerant

solutions on Linux to protect your data in the event of planned or unplanned outages.