Intelligent Tech Channels Issue 09 | Page 17

ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY important role to play in this. Enterprises concerned with business continuity make significant investments in High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) to help ensure that business-critical applications remain available. Yet, various factors combine to make achieving very high availability a challenging proposition. “These factors include configuration drift (the almost inevitable change in configurations from their intended and deployed state), the IT organisation- spanning nature of responsibilities (from network team, to applications to storage) for managing the entire IT stack necessary to support business continuity objectives and the proliferation of management tools for managing the diverse environment. “The channel can help customers by explaining and implementing best practices to mitigate these challenges. Using an automated, environment- spanning tool to monitor the environment can help make the difference between an environment that may not withstand component failures and natural disasters, and one that is well managed and quite likely to support business continuity objectives well.” Karam adds: “The channel is looking for customer value in supporting the large Ceiling-mounted smoke ‘sniffers’ are located throughout the facilities, and air samples are regularly measured for smoke by a Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA) system. Jeroen Schlosser, Managing Director, Equinix MENA Middle East organisations without proper backup and recovery solutions risk their bottom line, brand reputation and customer trust. Savitha Bhaskar, COO, Condo Protego numbers of customers who are struggling to manage an increasing amount of data. Our role as an information management company is to deliver the real value of our products to customers through our channel partners.” Jeroen Schlosser at Equinix MENA says, “Equinix makes sure its 175 global datacentres are ready for the worst of it. To withstand movements caused by an earthquake, equipment and non- structural components, such as cabinets, Jeroen Schlosser, Managing Director, Equinix MENA. Savitha Bhaskar, COO, Condo Protego. are anchored and braced in all Equinix datacentres. Each datacentre also has numerous measures to minimise equipment damage in the event of a flood, including moisture barriers on exterior walls, moisture detection sensors and dedicated pump rooms. Each also has tightly sealed conduits and drainage/ evacuation systems. The fire detection and suppression systems at Equinix’s datacentres are state-of-the-art. Ceiling- mounted smoke ‘sniffers’ are located throughout the facilities, and air samples are regularly measured for smoke by a Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus (VESDA) system. “Channel professionals should exercise the disaster recovery plan to reveal 17