CIO Wisdom II: More Best Practices

Design

As Karl Rauscher (executive director, Bell Labs Network Reliability & Security Office) stated, “Reliability is not something you can spray paint on when you want it. High reliability is achieved only through careful attention throughout the entire design, implementation, and operation stages.” Complex systems, whether power grids, the space shuttle, or the Internet, are prone to small and catastrophic failures. The point is to prepare for the inevitable and provide your company with alternative means to continue to leverage the connected world even when something does go wrong. This is typically achieved by multihoming, or connecting to multiple ISPs. Multihoming ensures the fundamental reliability for continued access to the Internet, ...