Resilience

Designing for the Cloud – Challenge #6 – Mitigating Failure

The universal law of communications is that things go wrong. Every formal signalling protocol has this fact built into its design. But all too often, this doesn’t extend to the rest of the infrastructure that runs the contact center. So... what happens when things break?

High Availability – Seeing The Bigger Picture

Some vendors' claims for very high uptime - maybe 99.999% - refer to software only. But for cloud-based contact centers, the vast majority of downtime is caused by hardware and network failure. This blog looks at the real areas of risk.

Keeping Cloud Services On Tap

How do providers of high availability cloud-based or hosted contact center services prevent failure and disaster from becoming loss of service?

Can You Spare A Minute?

As delivery of cloud computing services threatens to become a way of life, it is timely to look at where vendors like ourselves should be concentrating their efforts to ensure high availability.