The Comparative Benefits Of Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds

Cloud Benefit Highlights

• Overall – you need to balance Cloud v on pemise solutions in an overall application mix
• Security – you need to make sure the legal data jurisdiction issues are addressed by the hosting site
• Elasticity – you need to allow application writers to move easily through test/dev to production and allow for Web scale growth
• Performance  – you need to run applications synchronously or asynchronously at appropriate speeds

Vision Solutions Double-Take Software Steps Into Cloud Computing With Amazon EC2 – Promises ‘Recovery as a Service’

please note – Double-Take is now part of Vision Solutions

Double-Take Software Cloud Computing Highlights

• Has selected Amazon’s EC2 as the first deployment platform and partner
• Offers real time replication at around $250/month for the first and $150/month for subsequent servers
• Focuses on ensuring recovery, rather than merely backing up data
• As an asynchronous technique with a recovery point, will not be used for transaction processing
• Is only available for x86 servers running Windows or Linux
• Will move to ‘Recovery as a Service’ provider status
• Will consider partnerships and more integrated solutions in future
• Is focusing on Large as well as Medium and Small Enterprises