An Availability Primer. Availability Theory and Practice. Vendors and High Availability. Clouds and Virtualization. Appendices and Hard Sums.
Dr. Terry Critchley is a retired IT consultant
living near Manchester in the United Kingdom. He studied physics at
the Manchester University (using some of Rutherford's original
equipment!), gained an Honours degree in physics, and 5 years later
with a PhD in nuclear physics. He then joined IBM as a Systems
Engineer and spent 24 years there in a variety of accounts and
specializations, later served in Oracle for 3 years. Terry joined
his last company, Sun Microsystems in 1996 and left there in 2001,
after planning and running the Sun European Y2000 education, and
then spent a year at a major UK bank.
In 1993 he initiated and coauthored a book on Open Systems for the
British Computer Society (Open Systems: The Reality) and has
recently written this book IT Services High
Availability. He is also mining swathes of his old
material for his next book, Service Performance and Management.
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