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Cloud Outages: Design For Failure Or Enterprise Clouds?

Cloud Outages: Design For Failure Or Enterprise Clouds?

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 9, 2011

Last weekend saw Lightning taking out datacenters associated with Amazon Cloud and Microsoft BPOS. It affected one Availability Zone (AZ) in AWS Europe. Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge has detailed information on the incident. Amazon said that lightning struck a transformer near its data center, causing an explosion and fire that knocked out utility […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, cloud computing, cloud outage, design for failure, disaster recovery, DR, dublin, microsoft, outage, sla | 5 Responses

Designing For Failure: Some Key Facts

Designing For Failure: Some Key Facts

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 26, 2011

The AWS outage from last week brought the idea of “design for failure” into focus in many of the discussions around the cloud world. Looking back at the outage, it is pretty clear that only those apps that were designed for failure withstood the outage and the rest, especially the ones without even a DR […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, aws outage, best practices, cloud computing, design for failure, DR, insights, redundancy

Some Lessons From AWS Outage

Some Lessons From AWS Outage

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 22, 2011

Yesterday’s AWS outage has been buzzing around the tech blogosphere even after 24+ hours. As usual naysayers of cloud are up in the arms trying not to miss the golden opportunity to create FUD and competitors to Amazon are tapping into their misery to push their services. Well, people are tuned to accept this as […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, aws outage, cloud computing, disaster recovery, DR, federated clouds, iaas, insights, outage | 13 Responses

Zetta Wants You To Forget Using Traditional Backup Solutions

Zetta Wants You To Forget Using Traditional Backup Solutions

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 31, 2010

Zetta, the two year old company offering storage as a service targeted towards enterprises, yesterday announced the availability of Zetta Data Protection Solution and they are demoing their offering at the VMworld booth at San Francisco this week. In this era of big data, even enterprises have tons and tons of data which becomes too […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, cloud storage, disaster recovery, DR, Enterprise, enterprise backup, storage, zetta

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