Who should attend: Client-server computing planners and managers; Web site and intranet planners; network planners, managers and designers.

What you will learn: How to guarantee high availability of mission-critical client-server data on your network.

Networked clients need access to servers' resources, but those servers and the networks that connect clients to them come and go. Just as traditional host-oriented computing gave rise to fault-tolerant servers, networks have given rise to new ways of attaining increased uptime. This course will review the tools and techniques used to ensure access to mission-critical client-server data. Topics include:

- Fault-tolerance and enhanced availability
- Server- and client-based data replication
- The impact of transaction processors on enhanced availability
- The impact of connection-oriented and connectionless technologies on server transitions
- Enhanced availability on the Internet
- Security concerns
- Historical approaches for achieving enhanced availability
- Best practices today
- Server replication
- Client-side mirroring
- Customer case studies

Karl Anderson is a founder of SystemExperts, a consulting company with architectural, implementation, and deployment expertise. Karl has worked extensively with major Wall Street firms, commercial and industrial manufacturing companies, and leading on-line service providers helping them to design and implement manageable and secure open systems.

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