Private cloud providers why it is necessary

krisstanton719 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:51:49 CST

The Cloud Connect app from Google for Microsoft Office can be an application that integrates this apps Email, Calendar Docs and private cloud providers. Most legacy IT systems are comprised of a heterogeneous set of hardware platforms - used with the system over period - with different processors, recollection, drives, BIOS, and I/O systems. In a production environment, these heterogeneous systems work as designed, and the applications are generally loaded onto the machines and maintained and patched over time.

Offsite backups of these heterogeneous systems can be carried out and safely stored at an offsite location. There are actually really 2 options for stopping up and restoring the systems:

1) Back the data only - where the files are backed up from the local server hard drives to the offsite location either through tapes, online or between data centers on the dedicated fiber connection. The goal is to assure that the many data is captured together with recoverable. To recover the server in the matter of a disaster, the operating system has to be reloaded and patched on the same level as the production server, the applications need to be reloaded, re-patched, and configured, and then the backed up data can be restored to your server. Reloading the operating system and applications might be a time consuming process, and assuring that system and applications are patched to your same levels as the production server can be subject to human memory and error - both of which can lengthen the treatment time. (This is why I hate upgrading my laptop hardware. I have to invest days to get a new laptop to match up the configuration of my old laptop).

two) Bare Metal Bring back - a much faster way to recover the complete system. BMR creates a total snapshot of the operating system, applications, system registry and records, and restores the entire system on similar hardware just as it was configured inside production system. The gotcha is a "similar hardware" requirement. This often requires the identical CPU version, BIOS, and I/O configuration to assure the recovery will be operational. In a heterogeneous server environment, duplicate servers need to be on-hand to execute some sort of bare metal restoration for disaster recovery. As a result, IT disaster recovery with regard to heterogeneous servers systems either sacrifice recovery time and also requires the hardware investment be fully duplicated for a bare metal restoration to be happy.

Enter failure recovery for private fog up computing. First, with all of the discussion about "cloud computing", let me define what i mean by private cloud scheming. Private Cloud computing can be a virtualized server environment that is:

Manufactured for rapid server deployment - much like both public and personal clouds, one of the important thing advantages of cloud computer is that servers can be turned up & spun down at the drop of a hat.

Dedicated - the appliance, data storage and network are dedicated to a single client or company and not shared between different people.

Secure - Because the network is dedicated to a single client, it is connected only to that client's dedicated servers and storage.

Compliant - with the dedicated secure environment, PCI, HIPAA, and SOX compliance is quite simply achieved.

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