Always On: Achieving Application Resiliency

We believe global IT operations leaders are facing an Always-On crunch, in need of application resiliency.  This global IT crunch 'crisis' is characterized by:

• An overwhelming need for organizations to deliver non-stop applications and business processes services
• Insufficient budgets and unstable code bases, not originally meant to be Always On
• IT operations running, jumping, dancing and stressed, non-stop 24hrs a day

Rachel Dines, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., explains the need to evolve beyond reactive business continuity, in favor of proactive business technology resiliency.

Rachel shares the building blocks of a strategic approach to build the always-on, always-available extended enterprise, detailing a pragmatic approach.

Key Take-Aways:

• Why traditional approaches can't cope with the new reality of IT
• 3 basic steps towards effective Always-On IT operations
• An effective approach to discover, plan, act and optimize non-stop operations
• The shift from proactive to preemptive resiliency

 

Rachel Dines Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc.

Rachel serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. Her research focus is on IT continuity and disaster recovery services and technologies, next-generation high availability and backup, and data center strategies. Additionally, Rachel conducts research on infrastructure and operations metrics. Prior to her current role as an analyst, Rachel was a researcher on Forrester's infrastructure and operations team. She interviewed hundreds of I&O professionals, data center operators, and technology vendors while conducting primary and secondary research for research reports and consulting engagements.