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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
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