Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Computing’
Here is a list of some of the industries that will gain from adopting the cloud … Although they at first seem quite disparate, there is a common theme that hangs them together. Whether it be a mature IT company or a start-up, if you move your services to the cloud, then you expect that […]
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A few warnings here about the potential peripheral costs of cloud computing … One of the factors mentioned is the additional cost of availability. Now, for the compute node, there is a very elegant solution. It’s called a fault tolerant server. It will provide the uptime assurance that you want and deserve.
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Tags: Availability, Cloud Computing, fault tolerant server, uptime assurance
If I were running a mission critical service, I would want to control it myself. I am just beginning to wonder if there will be a backlash against the cloud before too long. It would save things like this happening. Oh, and if your service is truly mission critical, host it on a server with […]
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Tags: Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, mission critical
This week’s guest blogger, Stratus’s Joop Janssen, provides his fourth tip on how to avoid the Internet Crawl that is bound to happen during the 2012 Olympic Games. Today’s tip is: Remember when thousands of Amazon Web Service customers went down for four days last April? Amazon blamed them for their lack of foresight. If […]
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Tags: availability zones, Cloud Computing, Joop Janssen, virtualisation, Virtualization
This week’s guest blogger, Stratus’s Joop Janssen, provides his third tip on how to avoid the Internet Crawl that is bound to happen during the 2012 Olympic Games. Today’s tip is: Accelerate your virtualisation strategy, especially if it involves geographically dispersed sites, or remote or branch office implementations. The farther away from London proper you […]
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Tags: Cloud Computing, Joop Janssen, virtualisation, virtualisation strategy, Virtualization, virtualization strategy
When is the Cloud Viable?
A few objections constantly rear their ugly heads when clients consider cloud computing for their business critical applications. A couple of them are mentioned in this article. I would also argue that application latency is a show-stopper, but for now let’s park latency and security. That leaves us with availability. Most cloud offerings utilise tried and […]
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Tags: Availability, Cloud Computing, cloud security, Fault tolerant, uptime assurance, virtualisation
Another big name unveils a cloud package with some interesting twists. Although it sounds quite complex, I must say the concept of a 3D cloud boasting a 360 degree view to tackle the toughest business challenges does sound intriguing. But clouds have been in the press for all the wrong reasons over the last six […]
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Tags: Cloud Computing, High Availability, uptime assurance
The real cost of private clouds
From Network World, to The Register and all points in between, topical debate is going on all over the place regarding the real-life costs of providing your own private cloud. Are we starting to see a seismic shift from one technology provider to another? I have certainly heard some big names coming clean on this […]
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Ask for uptime assurance
Citrix has all the answers has it? I do hope so but cloud computing has been rather like Rupert Murdoch of late – in the press for the wrong reasons. Latterly it’s been because of downtime and lost data, let alone the security worries. So I was intrigued in this piece not to find anything […]
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Tags: Availability, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Downtime, uptime assurance
A great discussion going on here in Bill Highleyman’s Availability Digest Linked In group. Don’t you love it when techies get heated? Well worth checking in and maybe even chucking in your two pennies/ cents worth too …
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