One of CP-TA’s industry partners, Service Availability Forum, a consortium that develops, publishes and promotes open specifications for carrier-grade and mission-critical systems, has launched a new cartoon series to increase awareness of service availability-based solutions. The cartoons feature relatable scenarios to demonstrate the critical importance of service availability in our everyday lives.

“Walter’s Moments” follows the life of an ill-fated executive faced with many situations where he learns firsthand the costs of using services that do not have five 9’s (99.999%) service availability.  In the set of cartoons below, Walter is trying to make it through his business trip.

Have you ever had a Walter moment? The SA Forum would like to hear about it. Share a time when you have experienced downtime on the Service Availability Professionals LinkedIn group.

The SA Forum maintains, “There’s no upside to downtime.” And we agree.