Disaster recovery plans and solutions are a form of insurance. Companies hope that they’ll never need them, but pay the “premium” because not to do so is to put their business at risk. With any insurance policy, the subscriber tries to calculate what a fair premium to pay is. The calculation is based on the [...]
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Every day we encounter customers that have cobbled together their own disaster recovery (DR) solution, renting space in a secondary co-lo, buying equipment, setting up replication, etc. It’s a lot of work and money. These companies would like to have someone else deal with all of it for them, but the big players in DR [...]
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We’re pleased to announce the availability of two new solution bundles. These are Disaster Recovery bundles, with everything an organization needs to get started now with DR. The Small Business Edition is designed for the vast majority of small to midsized businesses. It’s a complete, turnkey solution that provides real disaster recovery at an affordable [...]
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I’m just getting around to writing about a terrific post by Rodrigo Flores over at GigaOm about SLAs and cloud infrastructure. Flores neatly articulates something that we have based nScaled on – the importance of the enterprise service agreement and SLAs in cloud, and the factors that make a cloud “enterprise grade.” Flores starts by [...]
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The past week and a half have brought us the trifecta of business continuity / disaster recovery (BC/DR) stories: Hurricane Irene, the San Diego blackout, and the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I’ll try not to belabor the point – stuff happens, and business need to be prepared – and instead highlight some of the more [...]
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At nScaled, we talk to a lot of businesses about backup. Backup-as-a-service is one of the solutions we provide through our hybrid cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Customers have a lot to say about their current backup solutions, and not much of it is positive. We’ve tried to provide a backup solution that solves the problems that they [...]
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As you know, one of the things that nScaled does a bit differently from other cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers is we implement a Hybrid architecture, with an nScaled Local Cloud Appliance installed on the customer’s LAN providing business continuity and local backup, plus the nScaled Remote Cloud Data Centers providing the scale-up / scale-out elastic [...]
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Lately I have been noticing an accelerating trend (albeit completely anecdotal) of web services starting to imitate one another. The followers start to look like the leaders, or they adopt the best practices proven by the leaders as their own, and these pretty soon become industry standards. Take for example the meteoric increase in Facebook [...]
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An important part of most discussions about clouds is an analysis of costs. People are strongly driven to try to reduce the costs of their burdensome infrastructure, particularly when a large part of it is almost never used (the DR provisions), yet is as costly as the primary in some cases. Most technical people we [...]
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