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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. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. License Includedâ??

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

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One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013.

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Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.

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They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. Disaster Recovery. “Because of the amount of mailflow, we need to manage that very closely,” said Namez. “A Silicon Valley.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Silicon Valley.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

Fountainhead

Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables.

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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.

Fountainhead

Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. Disaster Recovery – expanding on the example above, if an entire domain of servers fails, the entire group of server IO states, networking states, etc. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g. Qlogic , Emulex ). HP VirtualConnect ).

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. 2) Disaster Recovery: we can re-constitute an environment of server profiles, including all of their networking, ports, addresses, etc.,