Applied Scenario: It’s Never Simple

Examples tend to be simple and clear. But the real world they try to illustrate is complex and unclear. Complexity and a lack of clarity is the main problem we all face in attempting to solve the high availability and disaster recovery problems of most companies. If a problem is simple to frame, it’s usually simple to solve. Here is a scenario involving the kind of messy situation that leads to poor high availability and disaster recovery decisions.

Super Structure is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company. Their customer, Fancy Flowers, contracts them to design a highly available and recoverable SharePoint 2007 farm. Then they change their mind and ask for a SharePoint 2010 farm. Super Structure doesn’t ...

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