This page describes how we will support the MAD in a details production environment issues.
Enumerate the types of failures that are obviated by the redundancies built into Applogic grids.
Are these intrinsic redundancy features this the same as those offered by our ESX products?
Define the SLA for DBI.
Enumerate additional failure scenarios and describe the plans to mitigate these failures?
- database corruption
- physical destruction of data center
Enumerate the security risks and describe the plans to mitigate these risks?
- DOS attacks
- SQL injection attackes
- account and password security
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Don't forget network (dis)connectivity. I heard that the City
Hall outage the other day was due to a PG&E vault fire, and that
ain't the first time. Anyway, network connections do drop, so
they need to be identified (e.g., DBI to cloud?), and what if
that happens right in the middle of a <worst-case-scenario>?
I went to a business-continuity seminar a couple of weeks back, you may want to take a look at the slides:
Failure Scenarios
- hard drive fails
- data Center is destroyed
- database is corrupted
- network connectivity is lost
Risks
- DOS attacks
- SQL injection attacks
- account and password security
So what? Don't forget about EAS upgrades, PostgreSQL/PostGIS upgrades, Django upgrades, etc., major versions and patches.
Virus scans? Probably more things that elude me at the moment.
what is our Recovery Time Objective? (how soon to be back up and running)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_Time_Objective
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