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    The availability IT Barometer gauges the availability of your company's Information Technology by asking questions about web servers, ASP's, ISP's, databases, and software. The results indicate your risk of downtime based on the effectiveness of your company's existing IT structure.
     
    1.   Does your network include redundant intelligent network routers that can switch processing workloads to another system or node when one fails or becomes overloaded?
      Yes No
    2.   Are your web servers load balanced?
      Yes No
    3.   Have you designed your business process for growth?
      Yes No
    4.   Do your ASP(s), ISP(s), and other outsourced partners, incorporate an equal or greater level of redundancy as your own?
      Yes No
    5.   Do your bandwidth carriers use different upstream providers?
      Yes No
    6.   Do your carriers come in through separate points of entry into the building?
      Yes No
    7.   Are you using clustered servers or clustered SMP-type servers (Symmetric MultiProcessing)?
      Yes No
    8.   Has a component failure impact analysis been performed on your network components to determine which should be highly available?
      Yes No
    9.   Are there any single points of failure throughout the network that are part of a critical revenue stream?
      Yes No
    10.   Do you use hot standby systems?
      Yes No
    11.   Does your primary network location employ hot recovery capabilities located at an offsite facility, which could fail-over instantly?
      Yes No
    12.   Are you using RAID arrays to eliminate disk drives as a single point of failure?
      Yes No
    13.   Are your databases partitioned and fully redundant to protect data integrity during an outage?
      Yes No
    14.   Do you incorporate off-site computer data storage in your network?
      Yes No
    15.   Have you designated a location for an alternative relocation site for your operations in the event of a disruption?
      Yes No
    16.   Do you incorporate remote journaling?
      Yes No