Can there really be a high-availability cloud?
May 4, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: David Chernicoff.
Virtual datacenter provider ProfitBricks has announced that all of the customers will be getting high-availability as a basic component of their IaaS offering. With claims to already provide the best performance in the industry when compared to better known vendors such as Rackspace and Amazon, ProfitBricks is looking to use availability as the differentiator that drives business adoption of the IaaS offering.
From the high-level perspective this is a great idea and a serious differentiator for PriofitBricks. For people like me, those that keep a close eye on the IaaS market and advise clients on vendor selection, availability should be a top concern…
There has been a seemingly continuous series of events, many very high profile, of major services hosted on IaaS platforms going down because of issues that have long been addressed in physical datacenters but which are just seeing processes developed to deal with in the world of the virtualized infrastructure…
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