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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

As AWS expanded to 9 distinct AWS Regions and 25 Availability Zones across the world during the last few years, many of our customers started to leverage multiple AWS Regions to further enhance the reliability of their applications for disaster recovery.

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Q&A: Leading IT in a high-volume M&A environment

CIO Business Intelligence

Martha Heller: AssuredPartners was founded in 2011 and just crossed the $2 billion revenue mark. What is the overall IT ecosystem—infrastructure, architecture, integrations, disaster recovery, data management, helpdesk, etc.? What follows is an edited version of our conversation. What is behind that growth?

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Fountainhead: Who's using Infrastructure Orchestration in Finance?

Fountainhead

And fast repurposing means you can deliver instant High Availability (HA), entire environment disaster recovery (DR), and near-instant scaling (capacity-on-demand). as estimated for its legacy architecture. ► 2011. (22). Farm Bureau - Western Computer Services: Western Computer Services, Inc. ► November. (1).

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Leveraging Cloud and Virtualization for Disaster Recovery. His architecture work includes virtualization and cloud deployments as well as business network design and implementation.

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EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. ” The three key tenets of the EMC Protection Storage Architecture are protection storage, data source integration and data management services. .

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Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

With software defined infrastructure as the strategic foundation, Bryant explained plans for how Intel will invest in rack scale architecture, big data and high performance computing (HPC) technologies. December 2011 (126). November 2011 (142). October 2011 (147). September 2011 (135). August 2011 (147).

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Hybrid Cloud Means Slower Sales Growth for Equinix » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Colocation centers are key components of many hybrid architectures, providing third-party space to securely host corporate infrastructure, as well as ultra-fast connections to public clouds like Amazon Web Services. “These customers are taking time to sort through what exactly hybrid architectures mean to them,” Myers continued.