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True Availability – Part 2: Cloud Protection

Guest Blogger: Chris Seib, Co-Founder & CTO, InstaMed

Last week, I highlighted some common oversights by businesses when leveraging a private cloud that increase the risk of long-term data outages, and detailed the best practices and tips to use in discussions with current or potential vendor partners in order to protect your business. Below is Part 2 of this post, focusing on disaster recovery, business continuity and security.

Disaster Recovery

Even with high degrees of local redundancy in a private cloud data center,

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True Availability: Best Practices on the Cloud

Guest Bloggers: Bill Marvin and Chris Seib, Co-Founders of InstaMed

Last night, I turned on iTunes Match for the first time and streamed music from iCloud while making dinner.  Using the cloud to play music worked great, but it made me wonder: what would happen if the cloud went down and my music was unavailable? For five minutes, or for five hours?  I’d be annoyed and inconvenienced, forgetting all about my recent delight and the old way I used to do

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