Tag Archives: high availability

Forget Disaster Recovery, Let’s Talk Disaster Avoidance

“What’s your disaster recovery plan?” It’s a question I’ve been getting from customers quite a bit lately. And it caught me off guard the first time I heard it. Typically, inquiries on disaster recovery come from someone on an audit … Continue reading

Own Your Own Availability: Zero Downtime During the AWS Outage

The East Coast is still reeling from a powerful storm that swept through the region on Friday, but the storm’s effects reverberated beyond the devastation in the Mid-Atlantic. On Friday, a lighting storm partially knocked out one of Amazon’s AWS … Continue reading

Build It, and They Will Come. Build it Right, and They Will Stay

Wrong: http://youtu.be/kuOj-Ssf4y8 Right: http://youtu.be/arQmNjWsTz0 So, you’ve found the cloud application of your dreams.  It does everything you ever thought you could want and ten things you didn’t know you wanted but now can’t imagine living without.  It took less than … Continue reading