Amazon CTO Vogels: Cloud computing an option for disaster recovery
Posted by brennels on December 7, 2009
Larry Dignan posted this on ZDNet Dec 1st, 2009.
This is a great article and just demonstrates the leadership of Amazon and their thinking. Absolutely Amazon EC2 will be utilized as a cloud recovery platform and already is today. Utilizing the Amazon EC2 infrastructure is a great cost alternative to small, medium as well as large enterprise data centers to building dedicated disaster recovery co-location data centers. It is even more cost effective than engaging in offsite tape hosting services. Read the rest of the article written by ZDNet below and would love to hear your thoughts on how Cloud Computing will continue to evolve as the preferred disaster recovery platform in 2010.
“Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said Tuesday that enterprises are increasingly using Amazon Web Services for disaster recovery.
Vogels, speaking at the Supernova conference in San Francisco (follow on Twitter), made the remarks during a cloud computing 101 talk.
While Vogels covered a lot of well covered ground—at least for folks that cover cloud computing regularly—his disaster recovery statement stuck out from an IT management perspective.
“Enterprises are writing enormous checks to disaster recovery companies,” said Vogels.
It’s a point well taken. Disaster recovery is a huge business that really took off after the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. If Amazon Web Services becomes a viable disaster recovery option it could be very disruptive.”
Read the full ZDNet Article here and see a related video of Werner Volgels speaking about Amazon and the Cloud
