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Issue: 8 - The Highly Available World.

This issue of TrendSetter presents some concepts and best practices that help companies create and implement a High Availability Solution. While Mark Waldrep determines the needs of a company beyond just the hardware and software infrastructure, Michael Ross presents the definition of availability and how to quantify an organization's availability needs. Meanwhile, Arminda Jurgenson focuses on infrastructure changes often used to meet the demands of a global marketplace. In the Industry Trends section, Frank Welder also looks at the global marketplace in his analysis of how businesses are changing in this on demand world. The Software Corner, then, looks into the ways software can help businesses become more automated in their journey to high availability. Finally, the Tech Tip delves into changes on the latest HACMP software version.

• From the President's Desk
  More Than Just the Product Mark Waldrep looks behind the hardware and software and determines the underlying needs of a High Availability solution.
  
  
• Evaluating Availability Solutions
  Michael Ross shows the cost and benefit analysis of establishing a high availability solution.
  
  
• High Availability In a Global Marketplace
  Arminda Jurgenson evaluates the high availability solution at its core: clustering versus fault-tolerant hardware.
  
  
• Industry Trends
  Living in an On Demand World Frank Welder analyzes the becoming of an on demand company in an on demand world.
  
  
• Software Corner:
  Does High Availability Also Mean Under Utilized? Diane Hage highlights software that helps balance the need for high availability with the need for proper resource allocation and usage.
  
  
• Tech Tip:
  From IP-Replacement to IP-Aliasing: Handling Version Changes in HACMP Mark Neuman delves into this change and its effects in the latest version of HACMP.
  
  

Computing Truisms

• Home is where you hang your @
• The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail
• A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click
• Great groups from little icons grow
• Speak softly and carry a cellular phone
• C:\is the root of all directories
• Don't put all your hypes in one home page
• Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish
• The modem is the message
• Too many clicks spoil the browse
• The geek shall inherit the earth
• A chat has nine lives
• You can't teach a new mouse old clicks
• Don't byte off more than you can view
• Fax is stranger than fiction
• What boots up must come down
• Windows will never cease
• Virtual reality is its own reward
• Modulation in all things
• A user and his leisure time are soon parted
• There's no place like home.com
• Know what to expect before you connect
• Oh, what a tangled website we weave when first we practice to receive
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day -- teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks