[Year 12 IT Apps] Cloud redundancy

[Royce Williams]

Does that mean for total redundancy we need back up on other planets.
But what if the sun goes nova.


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On 09/05/2012, at 10:55 AM, Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au> wrote:

> We run server nodes in Tokyo, California and London.
> We also have a virtual server in Brisbane.
> 
> And we're a tiny 2 person web dev & hosting company.
> 
> What's of increasing interest are issues around legal jurisdiction when
> it comes to data. Ever thought about who your "virtual" neighbours are
> on the box your virtual server, or shared hosting arrangement sits on?
> 
> If you host data for people in other jurisdictions are you subject to
> their laws? Or are they subject to yours? Or both? If you host your data
> with a US company is your data subject to the Patriot Act? If the FBI
> seize your server because someone is running a mega upload file sharing
> service... do you have any recourse?
> 
> "May you live in interesting times... " ;)
> 
> - D.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 13:30 +1000, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>> 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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