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  • It's hard to find employee programmers who can do rapid prototyping with "mashup" technology, as well as build scalable fail-over applications using the latest hardware and tools.

    Marty Zwilling: Entrepreneurs Can Thrive on Services or Products Marty Zwilling 2011

  • For full disaster recovery, he first considered making one of the company's 85 offices the fail-over site.

    Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Yields ROI 2010

  • In phase two of the virtualization journey, which we call Business Production, customers begin driving operational savings by automating the provisioning of new servers, the allocation and balancing of computing resources based on application load, the restarting of servers when something goes wrong, and even the fail-over and recovery of the whole data center in case of disaster.

    How Virtualization Enhances Cloud Computing 2010

  • His contention is cloud computing is a virtualized standard system where you can add/remove resources as demand and fail-over require (i.e. the Amazon model), So why all the talk about what is cloud computing???

    David Thielen: JavaOne - Day Zero (Sunday) 2010

  • His contention is cloud computing is a virtualized standard system where you can add/remove resources as demand and fail-over require (i.e. the Amazon model), So why all the talk about what is cloud computing???

    David Thielen: JavaOne - Day Zero (Sunday) 2010

  • In phase two of the virtualization journey, which we call Business Production, customers begin driving operational savings by automating the provisioning of new servers, the allocation and balancing of computing resources based on application load, the restarting of servers when something goes wrong, and even the fail-over and recovery of the whole data center in case of disaster.

    How Virtualization Enhances Cloud Computing 2010

  • As well do you plan on implementing any fail-over redundancy on your web servers?

    Scaling SQL Server 2005 & National TV (USA, Canada) « The Paradigm Shift 2006

  • I would say that a fail-over grid that ran locally on University servers would be attractive e.g. in cases where the world grid fails, the university space continues being run by local servers, so the University space continues, at least for on-campus users.

    Virtual reality and higher education: Another perspective 2007

  • Balsillie stated that the company has taken extraordinary measures to institute more fault tolerance, and that they have set up a fail-over center in an undisclosed location to handle critical data should the primary system ever experience a similar issue.

    RIM’s Jim Balsillie says BlackBerry shutdowns a thing of the past « Boy Genius Report 2007

  • Shutting down the site in any single country will only cripple the Pirate Bay for as long as it takes for its fail-over scripts to execute, a gap measurable in minutes.

    Secrets of the Pirate Bay 2006

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