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How to Boost Cloud Reliability

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), September 8, 2011May 18, 2020

Clouds fail. That’s a fact. But if your company uses business apps that are tied to the availability of public cloud services, you can—and must—take steps to mitigate these failures by getting schooled on a few key factors:  service-level agreements (SLAs), redundancy options, application design, and the type of service being used. We’ll outline how these factors affect the availability of your applications in the cloud…

 

Read my full article in the August issue of Network Computing (For IT by IT) (Requires a free registration, my apologies.)

http://www.informationweek.com/nwcdigital/nwcaug11?k=nwchp&cid=onedit_ds_nwchp

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