Federated Clouds Are Key For Infrastructure Availability
March 20, 2015
Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Ted Navarro.
One of the most significant factors influencing cloud adoption is the promise of enhanced availability. Because it’s so much less complex and expensive to create redundant infrastructure architectures, the cloud makes building reliable and highly available networks economically viable. The key word here is “building”. Clients have to build redundant infrastructure — it doesn’t come as a given simply because infrastructure is deployed on the cloud.
It’s true that at the data center level, cloud platforms may have some built-in redundancy for compute, and especially for storage, but at levels higher than the data center, clients have to actively think about and deploy redundant systems if they’re obtain acceptable levels of consistent availability…
According to recent white paper from the Leviathan Security Group, many businesses are not deploying infrastructure with sufficient redundancy. In fact, they’re treating cloud platforms in the same way they would treat colocation facilities. Data and servers are limited to one data center. They may have redundant infrastructure, but that too will be in the same data center. Many businesses simply aren’t thinking about geographic diversity when they deploy cloud infrastructure…