Advantages: Recover from disasters in minutes
Regardless of where you locate your data centres and technology operations, they will eventually be faced with an interruption or outage—if not locally then due to loss of connectivity between distributed locations. This can lead to lost time and filing delays. Timaeus provides resilience against outages and disasters to all users—from main office staff to remote Investigators and Monitors.
Resilience to loss of connectivity
Cmed Technology developed Timaeus using components of an appliance model that enables clinical trial personnel to manage clinical data in both online and offline modes. As a result, clinical trial personnel can continue to electronically capture and manage clinical data with the same speed and efficiency when they lose network connectivity or experience a network slowdown.
Resilience to server and data centre failures
Timaeus’ distributed architecture model not only allows “in-flight” upgrade and maintenance; it also provides resilience to hardware and data centre failures. When these occur, operations teams can use the same “drain and upgrade” operation they use to perform maintenance to redirect users to functional servers and sites.
Speeding recovery through familiarity and automation
One of the biggest sources of delay when recovering from disasters is unfamiliarity of operations staff with disaster recovery plans. Simulating disasters does not provide enough familiarity to execute these efficiently in the midst of a large outage.
Timaeus avoids this by reusing the same operations needed to perform maintenance to recover from large outages and disasters. This is known as the “oiled hinge" model. As a result, Timaeus operations teams can simply use familiar operations to quickly manage disaster recovery.
The Net Effect: Recover from disasters in minutes
The net effect of these capabilities is that customers of Timaeus can recover quickly from large outages and disasters. Timaeus users have Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) measured in minutes—not hours or days.
