Implementing a "Highly Available System" seems today to be a piece of cake with the fairly recent development in Server Virtualization, where it is easy to transfer actively running logical partitions or virtual machines between physical systems with just a click of a button, or have transactional integrity using vertically scaled application clusters and zero downtime. But what is required to design and deploy such solutions so that it really works when it is needed? This and more will be discussed in the session "Principles for designing and deploying high and continuously available IT systems
Björn Rodén (MSc, BSc, BCSc, DiplCSc, DiplSSc) is currently Chief Technical Advisor for Business Resilient and Virtualization Systems at Pulsen Systems in Sweden and have designed and deployed highly and continuously available system solutions for large enterprises both in Sweden and Internationally. He holds most IBM Unix/AIX certificates since their introduction in 1994, and are currently one of only few IBM Certified Infrastructure Systems Architects, and also Certified PRINCE2 Project Manager, Certified TOGAF Enterprise Architect, Certified IBM Internet Security Systems, IBM Certified Technical Leader, Technical & Systems Expert, IBM, HP, SUN & Linux Certified Systems Administrator, IBM & Tivoli Certified Specialist and Certified Virtual Iron Technical Professional.
He has worked as technical expert and instructor for IBM AIX/Unix for over 20 years (since AIX 2.2.1/3.1), mentor, coach, project manager and quality leader. You can find more details on his LinkedIn at http://se.linkedin.com/in/roden