Understanding Platform Reliability
What isn’t “Mission Critical” anyway? Whether you’re considering a Server OS for ERP, Email and Collaboration, or a File and Print solution, you most likely consider reliability as an absolutely non-negotiable requirement.

After all, ongoing system management and downtime represent a significant portion of the overall lifetime costs of a solution – about 75% of TCO over a three-year period.

Choosing a reliable platform that’s easy to manage and maintain reduces the direct costs of reacting to downtime as well as the costs associated with end-user productivity.

   

Organizations define reliability as more than uptime. A reliable solution is one that is:
  • Easy to configure and maintain
  • Predictable, especially as business requirements evolve
  • Therefore, available to end users.
Find out how other IT organizations define and measure reliability, and get best practices from a variety of real-world businesses and industry experts.

Related Case Studies
Net4India
Customers are looking for millisecond response time which the Linux and MySQL was unable to cope with. We wanted our Web servers to return queries in milliseconds. This has been achieved by the new application running on SQL Server™ 2005 and Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0.
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Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
After a thorough evaluation, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd decided to deploy Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 over a UNIX and Linux solution.
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Intermountain Healthcare
Healthcare Provider Improves Reliability and Integration with Messaging Solution
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Industry Research
Microsoft
This paper focuses on the choices available from Microsoft and the open source community aligning to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
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Security Innovation
A study done by Security Innovation found that a Windows-based solution is more reliable than a Linux-based solution as business needs grow, with a scenario based on a one-year life cycle.
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Ideas International
A study conducted by Ideas International, Migrating Business-Critical Applications from UNIX to Windows and Itanium 2-Based Servers (January 2006), found that users agreed reliability has improved dramatically in Windows Server 2003 over earlier releases and that Itanium 2 processor-based systems would continue to deliver high levels of reliability over time, due to ongoing system-vendor innovations.
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Hands On
IIS and Apache Reliability Features
These screencasts examine the built in reliability features of Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows Server 2003 R2 against those of Centos 5.0 Linux (clone of Red Hat).
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Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor
Use Microsoft Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor to examine how programs affect your computer's performance, both in real time and by collecting log data for later analysis.
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Windows Error Reporting
Windows Error Reporting detects information about system and program failures and records the information in a log file. Find out how you can analyze the log file to diagnose the failure's cause.
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CIO Interview
Duffy Mees, JetBlue Airways:
“...Linux is more prone to tweaking and tailoring than typical Windows environments, and that has a direct impact on reliability.”

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