Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Recovery’
Posted by brennels on August 4, 2010
“For SMBs who need to keep those servers rolling, Geminare shows that cloud-based server recovery can not only be affordable but also easy, and provide fast failback as well.
When I’ve talked to companies for articles about high availability, business continuity, or disaster recovery, particularly keeping server-oriented applications available, there’s often a Bermuda Triangle of handwaving fuzziness about the fail-over and the fail-back, glossing over the time and IT cost to get that transaction database up and running again, or to restore it when the main site is available again — hours to days to rebuilt a database, for example.
If I’m talking to a non-stop, fault-tolerant provider like Stratus, it doesn’t happen, but with many BC/DR solutions and their providers, it often feels like they’re being less than forthcoming about the realities. It often feels to me like while the acquisition cost of a fault-tolerant, high-availability solution may be greater than a BC/DR one (although not necessarily — see my ScaleMP post), but if there’s any actual need to utilize BC/DR, the total out-of-pocket cost including resuming operations can be higher (not to mention the cost of lost availability, productivity, and sales).”
Read the full article on informationweek.com
Posted in Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Cloud Providers, Cloud Recovery, PaaS (Platform as a Service) | Tagged: Affordable cloud computing storage, Cloud computing for SMB's, Cloud Recovery | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on July 26, 2010
By: Chris Preimesberger http://www.eweek.com 2010-07-21
“The Cloud BUR [Back Up and Restore] SIG is a project of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative that promotes the adoption of cloud storage as a delivery model that provides on-demand storage billed only for what is used.
Nobody doubts that there is a lot more education to do in all business markets about the intricacies and attributes of cloud data backup/restore, archiving and disaster recovery.
So an influential industry group, the Storage Networking Industry Association, took it upon itself July 21 to form a new Cloud Backup and Restore Special Interest Group to approach this problem.
The Cloud BUR [Back Up and Restore] SIG is a project of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative that promotes the adoption of cloud storage as a model that provides on-demand storage billed only for what is used. Its main role is to educate the market about Cloud BUR benefits through use cases and to define requirements for future standards.”
Read the rest of the article here on eweek.com
Posted in Backup and Recovery, Cloud Backup, Cloud Recovery, Server Recovery | Tagged: cloud backup and recovery, cloud backup industry standards, Cloud Recovery | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on June 24, 2010
Lynn Haber, Contributor searchcloudcomputing.com 06.17.2010
| “If private cloud is a journey, then businesses need to consider transportation for the ride. Today’s existing IT data center infrastructure is yesterday’s news when considering a private cloud alternative.
Fortunately, there’s no shortage of vendors lining up to offer the building blocks for a private cloud infrastructure — virtualization, automated workload management, self-service and metering or chargeback — which also means organizations need to inject a level of caution when considering new investments.
To begin, industry experts advise revisiting the definition of cloud computing, keeping in mind that private cloud, as discussed here, is cloud within the enterprise data center.
Defining cloud computing
According to the U.S. Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable resources — networks, servers, storage, applications and services — that can be rapidly provided and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”
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Posted in Server Recovery | Tagged: Cloud Computing, Cloud Recovery, defining the cloud, steps for virtual priviate cloud | 1 Comment »
Posted by brennels on June 23, 2010
This is an ironic story I cam across today posted on informationweek May 13th, 2010 “Recovery.gov Moved To Amazon Cloud”. With all the talk about using the cloud for recovering servers the irony is that the economic recovery trackings system is being moved becuase SaaS and the SLA of Amazon EC2 is more cost effective than attempting to build the data infrastructure required to host such a high volume critical application. I wonder how long it will take the public sector to begin to realize these benefits of using cloud computing as a recovery platform?
“Recovery.gov Moved To Amazon Cloud” by J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek May 13, 2010 04:14 pm
“The federal government hopes moving the stimulus-tracking Web site to Amazon EC2 will allow the recovery board to save money and refocus on its core mission.
The federal government has moved Recovery.gov, the Web site people can use to track spending under last year’s $787 million economic stimulus package, to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced Thursday. The move marks a milestone for the Obama administration’s cloud computing initiative. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said in a conference call with reporters it is the first government-wide system to move to a cloud computing infrastructure. It’s also the first federal government production system to run on Amazon EC2, Kundra said.”
Read the full story here on informationweek.com
Posted in Amazon, Business Continuity, Cloud Architecture, SaaS | Tagged: Amazon EC2, Cloud Recovery, Recovery.gov, SaaS, Software as a Services | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on June 16, 2010
We wanted to share an interesting report on cloud computing that just came out of Elon University. For the study, researchers surveyed around 900 Internet, tech experts and social analysts on the topic of cloud computing, and received an overwhelming contentious that Internet users will live mostly in the cloud by 2020.
The survey reported: “By 2020, most people won’t do their work with software running on a general-purpose PC. Instead, they will work in Internet-based applications such as Google Docs, and in applications run from smartphones. Aspiring application developers will develop for smartphone vendors and companies that provide Internet-based applications, because most innovative work will be done in that domain, instead of designing applications that run on a PC operating system.”
Here is a link to the full report: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2010survey/future_cloud_computing.xhtml
Posted in Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing | Tagged: Cloud Computing, Cloud Recovery, Elon University Cloud Survey | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on June 15, 2010
Here are some interesting metrics that Amazon posted on their AWS blog
“If you already have some EBS (Elastic Block Store) volumes, stop reading this post now!
Instead, open up the AWS Management Console in a fresh browser tab, select the Amazon EC2 tab and click on Volumes (or use this handy shortcut to go directly there). Click on one of your EBS volumes and you’ll see a brand new Monitoring tab. Click on the tab you’ll see ten graphs with information about the performance of the volume.
For those of you without any EBS volumes (what are you waiting for?), here’s what you are missing:”
Read the full article here on the AWS blog
Posted in Amazon, Cloud Providers | Tagged: Amazon EC2, aws, Cloud Computing performance metrics, Cloud Recovery | 1 Comment »
Posted by amcanty on April 14, 2010
SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Do you want the ability to backup and recover your data in the cloud? If you answered yes, then you won’t want to miss Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK) and Amazon Web Services’ upcoming webinar on cloud recovery, which will provide information and answer questions about a new solution that is changing the disaster recovery landscape by eliminating the need to own and manage a datacenter.
This webinar will explain how businesses of any size can create a highly efficient and effective disaster recovery plan with Double-Take® Cloud, a solution that leverages Amazon Web Services’ extensive capacity on an as-needed basis through the cloud. As a result, the need for costly dedicated disaster recovery data centers and the associated hardware, software, real estate, power, cooling and management overhead is eliminated – providing end users with a simple, easy-to-use and affordable disaster recovery solution.
The webinar will cover how to:
- Backup and recover in the cloud, eliminating the need to own and manage a datacenter.
- Set up world-class disaster recovery for any Windows server in about an hour.
- Reduce downtime to minutes, recover any Windows server into Amazon Web Services easily and protect any database or application server with no additional hardware.
Attendees will also be able to ask questions during the live Q&A session with Amazon Web Services and Double-Take Software experts, Brian Matsubara and Peter Laudenslager.
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Double-Take Cloud & Amazon Web Services: Worried at Breakfast, Protected by Lunchtime |
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For more information, go to www.doubletake.com or register for the webinar here.
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Posted in Amazon, Backup and Recovery, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Backup, Cloud Computing, Cloud Recovery, Webinar | Tagged: Amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, backup, Cloud Recovery, Double-Take Cloud, Double-Take Software, recovery, Webinar | Leave a Comment »
Posted by amcanty on April 12, 2010
Register today for our joint webinar with Amazon!
Posted in Amazon, Cloud Backup, Cloud Computing, Cloud Providers, Webinar | Tagged: Amazon, amazon cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Backup, Cloud Recovery, double-take, Double-Take Backup, Double-Take Cloud, Double-Take Software | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on March 11, 2010
From Enterprise Systems Journal: Double-Take Software’s system state replication engine creates full image of a server workload in the cloud for rapid recovery
Note: ESJ’s editors carefully choose vendor-issued press releases about new or upgraded products and services. We have edited and/or condensed this release to highlight key features but make no claims as to the accuracy of the vendor’s statements.
Double-Take Software has leveraged Amazon Web Services to create a real-time workload recovery platform, Double-Take Cloud, to protect businesses from disaster and keep companies up and running without any upfront costs. Double-Take Cloud leverages the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often reserved for those companies that can afford to build and manage a second data center, complete with back-up servers standing by in case of a disaster or outage — a costly practice that requires significant resources. Other IT departments rely solely on the capabilities of local tape backup, also a time-consuming process with limited recovery capabilities.
Posted in Amazon, Backup and Recovery, Cloud Recovery, RaaS | Tagged: Amazon EC2, cloud backup and recovery, Cloud Disaster Recovery, Cloud Recovery, RaaS, Recovery as a service | Leave a Comment »
Posted by amcanty on March 1, 2010
Cloud computing means many things, but almost all definitions include some key value propositions: scalable on-demand resources, a metered pay-per-use model, access over the Internet, and infrastructure management and optimization that is better than most data centers.At a more conceptual level, cloud computing abstracts away all the undifferentiated IT tasks. Most businesses don’t add any value to their customers or create any competitive advantage for themselves when they buy, build, configure, and manage servers and storage. This is doubly true for disaster recovery equipment and data centers.
Conversely, poor performance in these tasks can cost value and competitive advantage. There is no benefit in doing these tasks well, but there is cost to doing them badly. This is like the opposite of a financial call option – lots of downside risk, but no upside.
For companies planning their first disaster recovery data center, with the associated selection, build, and maintenance tasks for servers, storage, and networking, cloud computing seems like an obvious fit. They can trade the capital expense that buys them no new value, for a no-commitment operating expense that probably buys better operating practices than they could achieve themselves.
Solutions are beginning to grow up around this idea of cloud recovery. The name is a little optimistic because most offerings today are traditional backup solutions, with little or no ability to actually recover in the cloud. Although a lot of vendors in the backup industry are making cloud announcements, they are mostly just letting users store backups in the cloud. In order to really deserve the cloud recovery title a solution should have the following features.
- The ability to recover workloads in the cloud: The cloud can offer more than just a place to dump your backup files. It can provide the computing systems to run your recovered systems, and after a production system fails, the ability to quickly restart a complete replacement with data, applications, and complete configuration in the cloud.
- Effectively unlimited scalability with little or no up-front provisioning: A few vendors can offer rapid, off-site recovery, but they don’t really qualify for the cloud title unless they provide lots of stand-by capacity with no up-front reservations or configuration. While this seems like a lot to ask, this is the promise of cloud computing.
- Pay-per-use billing model: A defining characteristic of cloud computing is that we only pay for the things we use. Use a little this week and pay a little; if we use a lot next week then we pay more, but only for that specific week.
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Posted in Backup and Recovery, Cloud Backup, Cloud Computing | Tagged: backup, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Recovery, data center, IT, pay-per-use, storage | Leave a Comment »
