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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

About 5 years ago, I introduced you to AWS Availability Zones, which are distinct locations within a Region that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

Fountainhead

The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. Does it sound like Amazons recent CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing announcement? but growing.

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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. With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. Disaster Recovery.

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