RKON CTO Marc Malizia’s article “Virtualization + Cloud Equals Perfect Storm For Disaster Recovery Services” appeared on CloudTweaks, a leading cloud community for cloud news, analysis, infographics and more. Click here to read the full article.
Not very long ago disaster recovery was a luxury afforded by only the very large companies due to the prohibitive cost and effort required. Frequently even these large companies were unable to justify the investment and went without a disaster recovery plan. Today, virtualization and cloud enables companies of all sizes to implement a scalable, highly efficient disaster recovery plan without a huge investment.
Costly and Resource-Intensive Disaster Recovery of Yesterday
At one time, investment in disaster recovery came in one of two forms: build a replica or subset of the production-computing environment at a secondary site or contract with a disaster recovery provider. These disaster recovery providers maintained data centers equipped with compatible computing platforms upon which a company could restore their environments when a disaster was declared. The latter was often the more feasible solution since the service provider was able to leverage their hardware investment over a pool of customers thereby lowering their per unit cost and passing some of the savings along to their customers. Though, I have heard many companies complain over their $50,000-$400,000 monthly costs to maintain their contract for a secondary site disaster recovery location. These exorbitant fees did not even cover the customer’s annual testing costs to simulate a disaster and test their recovery process that often included IT staff members rolling through airports with cases of backup tapes…
Learn how enterprises are building their cloud and see how cloud services provider RKON reengineered their data center to maximize the value of their virtual and cloud environment. Presentation by RKON CTO Marc Malizia at RKON Seminar at Arlington 9-1-2011.
See how this leading packaging company leveraged RKON’s managed services and virtual infrastructure to consolidate and optimize their environment and migrate to the cloud. Greg Langosch, Managing Director at RKON in conversation with Kenneth Sweet, VP Global IT for a leading packaging company. Filmed at RKON Arlington Seminar 9-1-2011.
RKON is sponsoring CampIT Cloud Computing Strategies seminar on Thursday, March 15 in Rosemont, IL. Topics include strategies for determining how and if moving to the cloud will benefit your organization, click here to learn more. Contact RKON if you are interested in attending with one of our complimentary passes.
RKON has enabled many IT departments to refocus on adding value to the business while we supply the on-demand computing platform. Click on the link below to watch a quick, 3-minute video about our capabilities.
Learn about our Cloud offering, which has enabled many IT departments to refocus on adding value to the business while we supply the on-demand computing platform. We help clients manage infrastructure at customer premise, colocation, or one of our Tier-4 data centers with our highly redundant, DR-ready cloud offering.
Cloud computing overview, what is public cloud and private cloud. Presentation by Chris Hueneke, Ace Hardware Part 1 at RKON Seminar at Arlington Park September 2, 2010.
Cloud computing overview, what is public cloud and private cloud. Presentation by Chris Hueneke, Ace Hardware Part 2 at RKON Seminar at Arlington Park September 2, 2010.
