Core Competencies

The IIS Mission Critical/High Availability team's mission is to design and deliver solutions that meet your availability and performance requirements for your most important business applications and databases.

IIS consultants and systems engineers are highly skilled in the design and deployment of robust, highly available systems built to keep your business running 24/7/365.

Using a structured methodology, IIS works with you to identify your critical business and e-business applications and to evaluate your existing storage and network infrastructure. Based on this assessment, we design a comprehensive, scalable solution for hardening your mission critical systems addressing both your business requirements and your cost objectives.

The four phases of the IIS methodology are:

• Assessment
• Planning and design
• Installation and configuration
• Testing and knowledge transfer

IIS Mission Critical/High Availability solutions deliver significant advantages to the enterprise.

• Up to "Five Nines" Reliability
• Enhanced customer service capabilities
• Protection from the revenue and productivity losses
• Enhanced ROI for legacy systems
• Centralized system monitoring and management
• Massive scaleability
• Disaster preparedness

The IIS Mission Critical/High Availability team supports and delivers all critical data and applications protection software and component technology.

• Processors
• Main and secondary memory
• I/O controllers
• Storage
• Network interfaces
• Fault management software
• Maintenance services
• Power supplies
• Cooling
• Failover Data Centers

IIS deploys customized mission critical/high availability solutions built on proven technology from first-tier providers:

• HP Serviceguard
• HP Serviceguard with Extensions for Oracle RAC (SGeRAC)
• Sun Cluster 3.0
• Sun Management Center 3.0 System
• Sun Cluster Service Solutions
• Veritas Cluster Server
• Veritas Global Cluster Manager
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Cluster Service.