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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

We also made it easy for customers to leverage multiple Availability Zones to architect the various layers of their applications with a few clicks on the AWS Management Console with services such as Amazon Elastic Load Balancing , Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. CTO - Amazon.com. For a hands-on demo on how to deploy.NET applications on Elastic Beanstalk with Amazon RDS for SQL Server, visit the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

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

Fountainhead

However, I can say that Bill Coleman (Cassatts CEO) and Rob Gingell (Cassatts CTO and former Sun Fellow) really have a break-the-glass vision. 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.