Discussion on: Availability Management, so what’s been going on here? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/availability-management-so-whats-been-going-on-here/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:26:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Nonstopper http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/availability-management-so-whats-been-going-on-here/#comment-36 Nonstopper Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:03:44 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/availability-management-so-whats-been-going-on-here/#comment-36 To be complete this view needs to account for the power and cooling infrastructure upon which most apps are ultimately dependent for availability especailly since fault-tolerant computing proved too expensive for most apps outside the very most mission-critical stock exchange or ATM types, HP pushed hardware reliability to highest levels and internet apps mushroomed in number and insidieously in mission-critical importance. **Ryan's Update** Interesting point, this maybe should be another Data Center Infrastructure by Category...something like Physical Infrastructure. I'm not very familiar with Power (including UPS), HVAC etc being managed via IP. I guess also in that category would be the physical infrastructure like Racks, Cabling, etc). I think your referring to products from players like Avocent, APC, Powerware, etc. The problem is where do I draw the line as now were getting into more hardware then software in addition to things that can't be managed from my experience by anything but barcodes or manual (human eyes) assessment. Please help me understand more here before I extend the model...I have to draw an automation line somewhere and I'm hoping to keep it focused on software. To be complete this view needs to account for the power and cooling infrastructure upon which most apps are ultimately dependent for availability especailly since fault-tolerant computing proved too expensive for most apps outside the very most mission-critical stock exchange or ATM types, HP pushed hardware reliability to highest levels and internet apps mushroomed in number and insidieously in mission-critical importance.

**Ryan’s Update** Interesting point, this maybe should be another Data Center Infrastructure by Category…something like Physical Infrastructure. I’m not very familiar with Power (including UPS), HVAC etc being managed via IP. I guess also in that category would be the physical infrastructure like Racks, Cabling, etc). I think your referring to products from players like Avocent, APC, Powerware, etc. The problem is where do I draw the line as now were getting into more hardware then software in addition to things that can’t be managed from my experience by anything but barcodes or manual (human eyes) assessment. Please help me understand more here before I extend the model…I have to draw an automation line somewhere and I’m hoping to keep it focused on software.

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