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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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Teradata: Embrace the Power of PaaS

Cloud Musings

They were also able to deploy both production and development systems to the Teradata Cloud, with the option to add disaster recovery systems in the future. Through this strategy, the company was relieved of most of the care and feeding of its data warehouse.

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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. RTI Fabrics.

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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. Networking.

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

Data Center Knowledge

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. Networking. Disaster Recovery. “Because of the amount of mailflow, we need to manage that very closely,” said Namez. “A

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

Fountainhead

They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. The 13th function if provided via the Dell Management Console.)

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

Data Center Knowledge

This pertains to managing the infrastructure elements on which the cloud is running – including the physical infrastructure elements such as servers, networks and storage, as well as the virtualization layer and the cloud stack. Networking. Disaster Recovery. Cloud Application Management. Comments (required).