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Cloud Prediction: High Availability with a Chance of Downtime In the past, disaster recovery meant either paying for expensive data replication services to remote data center hot sites or purchasing full sets of redundant hardware. Some companies were willing to pay for that peace of mind, but others went looking for more cost-effective approaches. |
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Why You Shouldn't Worry about Cloud Outages Joe Townsend writes on the cloud outages affecting big companies and says that maybe we should all take this news with a grain of salt. As with any technology there are going to be issues and things beyond our control, but it's the big companies that are going to be affected the most. |
