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High Availability Technical Workshop

Running a reliable computing environment - how to minimize system downtime

Wednesday 17 June 1998 - HP, Cheadle

Delegates from member organisations and non members are welcome to attend. Please book early to secure your place. Members are welcome to send any number of delegates at the special members rate for the day.

The provisional agenda is:

10.00 Registration

10.30 The Technical Aspects of High Availability - Rob Adams, HP

This presentation will cover the general aspects of High Availability from basic data protection through to HP specific products like MC/ServiceGuard and MC/Lockmanager. The design of systems to avoid a Single Point of Failure will be considered including non-hardware related problems. (Coffee 11.00-11.15.)

12.30-13.15 Lunch Break - meals and snacks available in the subsidised canteen

13.15 High Performance, Limitless Availability - Andy Jones, Stratus and Geoff Hogg, HP

Stratus Computer supply the world's most available servers for use in mission critical applications. As enterprises continuously exploit IT to create and sustain competitive advantage, the number of applications that are mission critical has increased rapidly. Stratus will take a detailed look at fault tolerant technology and its application. The presentation will include a detailed demonstration and will look in depth at the technology.

15.15 Tea

15.30 Hewlett Packard's High Availability Support Services for UNIX and NT - Clare Loxley, HP

An overview of HP's HA Support Services Portfolio and how the services are linked into the overall technology solution. The presentation will also cover HP's total solution message that outlines HP's ability to provide a total support solution for the customer - services as well as technology. Also included, will be customer experiences with HA.

16.15 Close

If you wish to attend, please contact Helen Grainger at HP/Works as soon as possible.

MEMBERS: 49.94 (42.50+VAT@17.5%)

NON-MEMBERS: 99.88 (85.00+VAT@17.5%)

For more information mail kernel@hpworks.demon.co.uk