Towards continuous availability of Internet services through availability domains Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:832153, abstract = {The increasing number of Internet users has caused a dramatic increase in electronic commerce. This growth is outpacing technologies for dependability, causing traditional views of high availability to come under question. In particular, Internet failures are a phenomenon external to the owner of a commerce site that must be dealt with, and therefore, geographically distributed servers are a basic availability requirement for e-commerce sites. Geographic distribution provides an opportunity to view users in different roles based on those distributed components they must access. This paper presents an approach based on partitioning online function into domains, each of which provides service to users in a specific role. Coordination between domains is eliminated as much as possible by exploiting application-specific knowledge. Once partitioned, availability techniques may be applied to each domain independently. We argue such an approach is necessary to deal with the geographic distribution of system components imposed by the nature of the Internet and maps well onto real e-commerce deployments}, author = {Bowen, N. and Sturman, D. and Ting}, citeulike-article-id = {832153}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=857590}, journal = {Dependable Systems and Networks, 2000. DSN 2000. Proceedings International Conference on}, keywords = {availability, failures, internet}, pages = {559--566}, posted-at = {2006-09-06 10:22:31}, priority = {1}, title = {Towards continuous availability of Internet services through availability domains}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=857590}, year = {2000} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:832153 L3 - citeulike-article-id:832153 N2 - The increasing number of Internet users has caused a dramatic increase in electronic commerce. This growth is outpacing technologies for dependability, causing traditional views of high availability to come under question. In particular, Internet failures are a phenomenon external to the owner of a commerce site that must be dealt with, and therefore, geographically distributed servers are a basic availability requirement for e-commerce sites. Geographic distribution provides an opportunity to view users in different roles based on those distributed components they must access. This paper presents an approach based on partitioning online function into domains, each of which provides service to users in a specific role. Coordination between domains is eliminated as much as possible by exploiting application-specific knowledge. Once partitioned, availability techniques may be applied to each domain independently. We argue such an approach is necessary to deal with the geographic distribution of system components imposed by the nature of the Internet and maps well onto real e-commerce deployments JF - Dependable Systems and Networks, 2000. DSN 2000. Proceedings International Conference on EP - 566 TI - Towards continuous availability of Internet services through availability domains SP - 559 KW - availability KW - failures KW - internet AU - Bowen, N AU - Sturman, D AU - Ting PY - 2000/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=857590 ER -