TA4820

What Keeps Clouds Up?

With the jury still out as to whether virtualization technology can reliably support critical business functions, it's curious that we'd rush to turn over data center operations to start-ups and technology barely two to three years old. At this stage of industry maturity - which resembles the dot.com explosion in the late '90s - the three critical issues of availability, security and performance have not been fully addressed. And these issues may be more effectively and efficiently developed and matured in a private internal cloud.
Public or private, availability and quality of service are best guarded when all single points of failure (SPF) are eliminated. (It is not an exaggeration to say the cloud provider itself a single point of failure; there have been many recent examples of this.) As any IT professional knows, this has always been easier said than done. Cloud computing and virtualization introduce new opportunities for single points of failure to raise their ugly heads with greater impact to IT than ever before.
In this breakout session we will examine the issue from the perspective of private clouds, discuss its impact on services, pinpoint a number of instances and products prone to inducing failure, and explore possible options for mitigating threats to availability.

Technology & Architecture

Breakout Session

Clouds

1 Hour

Allan Jennings, SVP Development, Stratus Technologies