At 7:09 pm -0400 22/9/06, Horst Herb wrote:
On Friday 22 September 2006 16:25, Ian Cheong wrote:
A major item we are dependent on is our network switch. It's not
likely to fail but if it does, the whole place goes down. Can we
justify having a spare for several hundred dollars even though we
don't really need it?
Can you justify *not* having it?
I think we need a spare and I can justify it in terms of productivity
hit if it fails. I do think GPs can be convinced to spend money on
things that make business sense.
But how many GP surgeries that are highly IT dependent have redundant
systems? At least rapid failover capability and lack of dependence on
any single item of equipment.
We had this discussion on failure tolerant clusters a while back - at
the time, nobody owned up to having one.
Thinking, especially in larger practices needs, to move towards
minimising potential downtime as part of risk management and business
continuity.
Ian.
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