Information technology and handling of computerized information for business and industry is a constantly evolving technology. The new cloud computing infrastructure is an increasingly compelling option of many organizations. This article from enStratus says that there are tools and ways of managing the diversity of this computing environment. They provide software tools that support the provisioning, management and monitoring of applications in multiple public and private clouds. Some of the available cloud computing platforms are Amazon Web Services, The Rackspace Cloud, Windows Azure and Visi's ReliaCloud. These available tools are great in a cloud infrastructure that needs to comply with enterprise-class IT security and compliance regulations, when administrators have concerns about cloud reliability and availability SLA's, and when there is a need to provide a reliable disaster recovery or business continuity solution for an organization. The enStratus platform provides for these three needs. When it comes to security, there is a separation of security keys from encrypted data, as well as providing advanced user logs for compliance. For reliability, an auto-recovery engine with unique clustering capabilities minimizes human error and enables support of SLAs up to 99.9999% reliability. There is also the matter of relying on a single cloud provider which can represent a significant business continuity risk. It is wise to have cloud independence that does not rely on the infrastructure of the provider. It follows then, that it should be possible, indeed required, to do cross-cloud disaster recovery. For companies wishing to transition to the cloud environment, this article can be a good introduction as to the things and factors that should be considered.
mlmbrothersApr 5, 2010
Great work
salsantos222Apr 22, 2010
Information technology and handling of computerized information for business and industry is a constantly evolving technology. The new cloud computing infrastructure is an increasingly compelling option of many organizations. This article from enStratus says that there are tools and ways of managing the diversity of this computing environment. They provide software tools that support the provisioning, management and monitoring of applications in multiple public and private clouds. Some of the available cloud computing platforms are Amazon Web Services, The Rackspace Cloud, Windows Azure and Visi's ReliaCloud. These available tools are great in a cloud infrastructure that needs to comply with enterprise-class IT security and compliance regulations, when administrators have concerns about cloud reliability and availability SLA's, and when there is a need to provide a reliable disaster recovery or business continuity solution for an organization. The enStratus platform provides for these three needs. When it comes to security, there is a separation of security keys from encrypted data, as well as providing advanced user logs for compliance. For reliability, an auto-recovery engine with unique clustering capabilities minimizes human error and enables support of SLAs up to 99.9999% reliability. There is also the matter of relying on a single cloud provider which can represent a significant business continuity risk. It is wise to have cloud independence that does not rely on the infrastructure of the provider. It follows then, that it should be possible, indeed required, to do cross-cloud disaster recovery. For companies wishing to transition to the cloud environment, this article can be a good introduction as to the things and factors that should be considered.