[Info-vax] The new world that VMS will be living in

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/7/2020 8:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/7/2020 8:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> And that's only one aspect.  How about reliability?  How long can]
>> your business run if your Cloud Provider goes down?
> 
> How long can they run if their own data center goes down.
> 
> Same.
> 
>>                                                     What exactly
>> have they done to make you feel that t herfe is no chance of that
>> happening?
> 
> Regions, availability zones etc..
> 
> Cloud does not change the redundancy requirements - it just make it
> a bit easier and cheaper to meet them.
> 
> If it was necessary with 2 data centers with a certain distance between
> for on premise, then that is still necessary with cloud.

If you today have two buildings with separate power and network then
with cloud you go for two availability zones.

If you today have two data centers in different states then with
cloud you go for two regions.

Arne