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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

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

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

Data Center Knowledge

Fishbowl was using Latisys for colocation of its internal systems and intranet, while hosting customer-facing services with another managed hosting provider. Its customer systems were growing too fast for its previous provider. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

Fountainhead

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software.

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

Fountainhead

This capability will most likely be an integrated part of whatever server and network environments you select, but now is the time to begin planning how youll tie it in with the rest of your system management environment. IO Virtualization in the IT Management Landscape. IOV is agnostic to the workload!