Eliminating Single Points of Failure From Your Private Cloud

– Brought to you by 2X Cloud Computing guest blogger Brien M. Posey –

When an organisation deploys a private cloud, that private cloud quickly becomes an indispensable, mission critical infrastructure component. That being the case, it is important to construct the private cloud in a way that avoids the potential for a single point of failure.

Although it is impossible to delve into a comprehensive discussion of fault tolerance within the confines of a blog post, I wanted to take the opportunity to discuss some strategies for eliminating single points of failure within your private cloud.

Eliminating single points of failure means implementing redundancy for critical system components. In the case of a private cloud the redundant components that you will need and your overall fault-tolerant strategy will depend on what the private cloud is designed to and on the ways in …