The BluePrint for Disaster Recovery Design Service Package is ideal for clients who have purchased Sybase products and need a clear understanding of the strengths and weakness of their current design in a disaster scenario.
Objectives
Sybase’s consultants will work with you to design a blueprint for implementing a recommended disaster recovery solution. Our architects will examine your Sybase computing environment and apply design rigor to unearth the weaknesses of your current system. Using various design strategies that map to your business goals, they will make recommendations that allow you to choose the best disaster recovery solution based on your present and future needs. This will ensure there is no potential for failure given possible disaster scenarios.
Deliverables
The deliverables for this service package include a high-level Business Continuity Processing (BCP) document from Sybase detailing the recommended architectures, software building blocks and ideal hardware that take into consideration the identified critical success factors, risks and constraints. In addition, Sybase will provide a Project Plan document detailing a pilot build and post-implementation support.
This high-level document will detail the following:
- Critical Success Factors: Objectives that must be achieved by the candidate architecture to meet the stated business goals. Candidate architectures will be measured on their ability to meet all or most of the critical success factors.
- Risks: The document will detail the risks of implementing a proposed architecture as well as suggest mitigation strategies to reduce those risks. For example, it might include training schedules for staff or recommend the introduction of new technology.
- Constraints: Any architecture’s constraints include those factors that force certain boundaries against the presented designs. The constraints are not necessarily negatives; they allow the design to take account of current environmental characteristics and then fit in this existing environment. For example, they can take account of whether Windows versus Unix operating systems are currently in place.
At the conclusion of this engagement, you will obtain a repeatable and supportable Sybase Disaster Recovery solution to apply to similar application silos that have the same server architecture.
High-level Activities
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Estimated Time Frame |
| Pre-Contract |
Customer begins to define following parameters:
- Critical Success Factors
- Risks
- Constraints
- Throughput requirements
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| Environment Review and Architecture Design |
Joint Requirements, Analysis, and Design Sessions further explore and validate:
- Critical Success Factors, Risks, and Constraints
- Data throughput requirements
- Environmental Characteristics (ranging from Service Level Agreements to specific hardware and network topology)
- Architecture options
Deliverable: High-level design document draft
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5 to 10 days
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| Project Plan (optional activity) |
Based on the recommended design, a project plan is developed that includes estimated timeframes and staffing for the activity tasks.
Detailed in this plan will be the building of a pilot as well as load and regression testing. This activity can be done either onsite or off.
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5 days
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