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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

Availability Zones have since become the foundational elements for AWS customers to create a new generation of highly available distributed applications in the cloud that are designed to be fault tolerant from the get go. Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replica is another important enhancement for supporting these disaster recovery scenarios.

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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

All Things Distributed

The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region is our second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, joining AWS GovCloud (US-West) to further help US government agencies, the contractors that serve them, and organizations in highly regulated industries move more of their workloads to the AWS Cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory requirements.

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Fountainhead: The Rise of the Cloud Service Bus

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The Rise of the Cloud Service Bus. In my recent GigaOm guest blog , I posited that the advent of hosted cloud services (particularly PaaS and SaaS) will slowly morph the role of the CIO into that of an IT Supply Chain Manager. Fountainhead.

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In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don't Neglect Home Site Restoration.

Data Center Knowledge

In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don’t Neglect Home Site Restoration. Michelle Ziperstein is the Marketing Communications Specialist at Cervalis LLC , which provides data backup and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical data.

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The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. Because many IT organizations are comfortable with the concept – and implementation – of SDDC, the logical next step is the adaption of software-defined disaster recovery (SDDR.)

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

CTOvision

Investigate FedRAMP and its role in standardizing cloud security and what the program means to federal agencies. Event attendees will also hear about how to securely manage big data, cloud computing, mobility, social networking, critical infrastructure and more! Jim Byrom , Program Manager, Disaster Recovery, IRS.

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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. He has people from infrastructure, cloud, cyber security, and application development on his team. What is the overall IT ecosystem—infrastructure, architecture, integrations, disaster recovery, data management, helpdesk, etc.?

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