Giving Ed more ammo on his TechEd rants this week
Tags :Rant
Reading a recent NetworkWorld magazine issue
(May 3 2004) there is a product
evaluation roundup. What
makes it is interest is they had to dedicate an entire product roundup
(3 full pages and as an author/editor at E-Pro
that is a lot of text for a subject) just to show you "When your
Exchange server goes down" software for MS Exchange disaster-recovery
wares. So I have to go and buy a third party vendor software to know
if my primary site was down to direct users to a hotsite somewhere? Here
is the quote that made me laugh the hardest
We tracked how many
messages were lost during failover and clocked time to availability.
They also talk about 'replication' of data
ad the ability to move all the Active Directory settings, DNS and registry
entries across to the secondary site. Are we serious here? One
product even changes the IP address in case DNS can't be changes or shouldn't
be. I won't even go into the steps necessary for recovery for one
of the products.
All Lotus users shall hence rejoice by
doing the clustering and failover dance twice annually.
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On Wednesday, May 26th, 2004 by Chris Miller
