We want to take this time to talk about Cloud-based Disaster Recovery Solutions. Getting it out of the way, Solar VPS offers our clients with Cloud based disaster recovery services which provide: 20GB to 200GB Backup Capacity Full Server Backups New Data Backed Up Incrementally Backups Stored for Three Days Newest Backup Replaces Oldest Multiple Points of Restore Backups Kept in a Redundant Offsite Data Center Facility To learn more about Solar VPS SolarSystem Disaster Recovery options, follow this link, SolarSystem DR. That said, we want to use this space to talk about Cloud Disaster Recovery Solutions and why they are so important. Geo-Redundant Offsite Data Center Facility We bolded, Backups Kept in a Redundant Offsite Data Center Facility, for a reason. Without question, the most important and vital aspect of a great Cloud based disaster recovery plan is the providers ability to supply Geo-Diverse Redundant Data Center Facilities for backing up a clients vital data. But what is a Geo-Diverse Redundant Data Center Facility? A Geo-Diverse Redundant Data Center Facility refers to a provider who operates at least two data centers. The first data center is their main web hosting, colocation, Cloud hosting facility which houses and stores your critical business/personal data. The second data center facility is the data center which your colocation or Cloud hosting provider uses to backup all of your existing services. While this sounds easy enough to understand and accomplish, it’s a bit more complicated than operating two data centers around the corner from one another. Geo-Diverse Redundant Data Center Facility Requirements Geographical Separation – The major need of all Geo-Diverse Redundant Data Center Facilities comes in the form of operating two differing data centers located hundreds, if not thousands of miles, apart. The reason for this is simple. Natural disasters, power outages and generally bad things happen all the time. When Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the North Eastern Shore of the United States, multiple data centers located in lower Manhattan flooded with the Hudson River. This flooding caused those data centers to experience massive amount of downtime and thus cost their clients nearly $8 billion in lost revenues. This is the reason for Geo-Diverse Redundant Data Center Facilities located miles and miles apart. Natural disasters do happen but they rarely, if ever, happen spanning from New York City to Austin, Texas. Point in case, always having a backup data center up and running is a must for Cloud disaster recovery. Data Center Tier – Let’s say your provider either owns or operates their Cloud hosting firm out of a Tier 3 data center. As that facility supplies your critical solutions with highly redundant power and cooling along with top of the line security and IT management systems, their backup facility should supply your critical solutions with the same level of service. The truth is, we have no idea when the next strong storm is going to hit and we have no idea how long the next downtime of services will be. … Continue
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Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery: Five Critical Decisions
This whitepaper explores the five critical decisions organizations must adhere to when building a backup and recovery plan to prevent the complexity of virtualization that complicates IT services and the day-to-day of IT professionals across industries. It covers complete backup and recovery solutions, purpose built for organizations with specific virtualization requirements.
John Sims: SAP Targets Operators for Cloud-Based Mobile IP Service
SAP AG has introduced a cloud-based service offering for telecommunication carriers to interconnect rich communication services on any mobile device or network.
The company designed an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem to support its mobile services and allow end users to share videos, messages and files anywhere, SAP said Tuesday.
«As today’s mobile consumers persistently seek out the latest innovation and best possible user experience, operators must support cutting edge IP-based services to remain competitive,» said John Sims, president of SAP Mobile Services.
Sims added the business intends for its IMS hub to help operators test RCS and voice over LTE interworking systems.
Microsoft & AppZero Present: Migrate from WS03 to WS12 or Windows Azure
With Windows Server 2003 end of extended support approaching, companies are faced with moving large numbers of enterprise applications. Join Microsoft and AppZero for an informative webinar on upgrading production applications from WS2003 to WS2012 or Windows Azure. AppZero’s one-step application migration lets you modernize your applications and move to the cloud in one step.
Hear firsthand from Microsoft’s Todd Furst and AppZero’s Greg O’Connor everything you need to know about WS2003 end of extended support and options for migrating. We will take questions live at the end of the presentation. This webinar will be of particular interest to enterprise IT pros tasked with modernizing and System Integrators looking to expand their practice from virtualization to cloud migration.
OpenNebula Enhances Its Support for Cloud Bursting to Amazon
As you may know, OpenNebula’s approach to cloud bursting (that is, its hybrid cloud model) is quite unique. The reason behind this uniqueness is the transparency to both end users and cloud administrators to use and maintain the cloud bursting functionality.
The transparency to cloud administrators comes from the fact that a an AWS EC2 region is modelled as any other host (albeit of potentially a much bigger capacity), so the scheduler can place VMs in EC2 as it will do in any other local host. Of course, the scheduler algorithm can be tuned so the EC2 host (or hosts, more on this below) is picked last, so it will be only used only if there is a real need (ie, the local infrastructure cannot cope with the demand). On the other hand, the transparency to end users is offered through the hybrid template functionality: the same VM template in OpenNebula can describe the VM if it is deployed locally and also if it gets deployed in Amazon EC2. So users just have to instantiate the template, and OpenNebula will transparently chose if that is executed locally or remotely. Very convenient, isn’t it?
WSTA Named “Association Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2014 NY & Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that the Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 15th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
The Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA®) provides financial industry technology professionals, vendors, service providers, and consultants with forums to learn from and connect with each other. The WSTA facilitates seminars and networking events where members meet and exchange ideas and best practices that assist them in effectively capitalizing on technology advances and dealing with financial industry business challenges. Founded in 1967, the WSTA is a not-for-profit association with a long history of evolving to meet the needs of its members.
Global Outlook for 2014 Business Technology Investment
Are you likely to increase your business technology investment next year? If you are, then you’re not alone. Worldwide ICT spending is expected to accelerate in 2014, after dipping to its slowest pace of growth since the financial crisis in 2013, according to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC).
Overall business technology spending is on course to increase by 4 percent this year at constant currency, reaching $2.04 trillion — that’s down from last year’s growth of 5 percent, due mainly to the slowdown in key emerging markets including China and Russia.
IDC forecasts that in 2014, a rebound in China and continued momentum in the U.S. and Europe will see a return to overall industry growth of more than 5 percent (reaching $2.14 trillion).
SOA Software Announces SOA & API Intermediation for Microsoft Environments
SOA Software is adding a new product, Intermediary for Microsoft, to its portfolio for Microsoft-based APIs and SOA services. Built entirely on the Microsoft platform, the Intermediary for Microsoft runs as an independent network management point and acts as an SOA and API intermediary between front end mobile, cloud, and portal applications, and backend Microsoft resources. The new product lets customers virtualize their Microsoft services environment, adding powerful new features to their API and SOA services such as Windows security, NET.TCP mediation, and dynamic routing without having to write new code or modify their existing infrastructure.
Racemi Announces Support for Migrations to AWS International Regions
Now, it’s easier than ever to migrate existing Linux (and Windows) servers to any AWS region using Racemi’s new dedicated, self-service website. It’s a SaaS offering which anyone can use to point-and-click their way to onboard workload to AWS.
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public, private, and hybrid clouds, has announced Cloud Path for AWS, a dedicated Amazon Web Services migration portal with support across the AWS international regions – Australia (Sydney), Brazil (Sao Paulo), Ireland, Japan (Tokyo) and Singapore. These are additions to existing support for AWS in the U.S. east and west regions.
Racemi Announces Support for Migrations to AWS International Regions
Now, it’s easier than ever to migrate existing Linux (and Windows) servers to any AWS region using Racemi’s new dedicated, self-service website. It’s a SaaS offering which anyone can use to point-and-click their way to onboard workload to AWS.
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public, private, and hybrid clouds, has announced Cloud Path for AWS, a dedicated Amazon Web Services migration portal with support across the AWS international regions – Australia (Sydney), Brazil (Sao Paulo), Ireland, Japan (Tokyo) and Singapore. These are additions to existing support for AWS in the U.S. east and west regions.