Vision for high-availability of the global infrastructure

High availability is critical to the future of the information technology (IT) business. In many ways, it is fundamental to the future of the world economy as we become more reliant on the global infrastructure, Today it is not uncommon to witness losses exceeding /spl epsi/ per hour of outage in many segments of the industry. What is alarming is that there is no articulated vision on how high availability is to be achieved for end-to-end solutions running on the current global infrastructure. The goal of the Industrial Council is to develop a vision for high availability which can cut across many industries.