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Chapter 11, "Turning a Risk Assessment into a Risk Mitigation…

- - - - Facility costs - The new servers may not fit in the existing equipment bays, which would require facility costs to accommodate them. As well the addition of the servers may overload the power fed to the room and cause circuit breakers to pop, which could result in outages for other servers
      - Installation costs - If the in-house personnel don't have the expertise to install the countermeasure, additional expenses will be incurred for a professional installation, and the project will be delayed.
      - Initial purchase costs - The equipment is expensive, and servers used in a failover cluster have specific technical requirements. If someone decides to cut costs and buy cheaper servers at the expense of the failover requirements, additional problems may be encountered
      - Training costs - If the technicians don't know how to operate the countermeasures, it may just sit in the corner gathering dust.
    - - Important consideration for any project is the schedule. Task should be planned to ensure they occur in a specific order, which means that, if any task is delayed, other tasks may also be delayed, and these delays may affect the actual implementation date.