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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

We also made it easy for customers to leverage multiple Availability Zones to architect the various layers of their applications with a few clicks on the AWS Management Console with services such as Amazon Elastic Load Balancing , Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. Disaster Recovery.

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Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. Disaster Recovery. “Because of the amount of mailflow, we need to manage that very closely,” said Namez. “A Silicon Valley.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Disaster Recovery. Managing the cloud stack itself is typically done through the vendor-provided UIs, and augmented by 3rd party tools. Silicon Valley.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

Fountainhead

They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. The 13th function if provided via the Dell Management Console.)

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , developers can now deploy their.NET applications directly to Elastic Beanstalk, without leaving their development environment.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. 2) Disaster Recovery: we can re-constitute an environment of server profiles, including all of their networking, ports, addresses, etc.,