[Year 12 IT Apps] Cloud redundancy

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Sorry to reflect back on this old thread.

I heard from a senior IT engineer in NSW that many of the big cloud
providers, now backup the data across continents. I has been said that
'it isn't a backup until the backup has left the building'. I guess we
can now say that you don't really have a backup until you have stored
it on multiple continental plates. If you could connect these volumes
and sync with an atomic clock, it conjures an image of an
intercontinental raid device or a super cloud drive that spans the
globe with transnational redundancy. :-)

Regards Roland

On 20 April 2012 08:21, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> "Given some of the recent (and high profile) cloud storage outages with both
> Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure, there is a growing interest in providing
> fault tolerance across storage providers. In the same way local storage
> solutions provide RAID, cloud storage could benefit from a redundant array
> of cloud storage solutions (RACS). "
>
> http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/04/duracloud/
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