Distributed cloud

Don’t put all your virtual eggs in one hosting basket: Steve Cassidy explores how to disaster-proof your business

Isn’t this a bit redundant? Surely cloud is by definition distributed? Actually, it’s not. The marketing might make you imagine that cloud deployments always include remote backup, failover, regional scalability, software updates and so forth. In reality, these things are very much in the realm of chargeable extras, or features you need to manage for yourself. In the case of distributed cloud, we’re talking about a powerful set of standards for business continuity that should be compatible with your cloud package, but which are certainly not baked into it. So does it basically mean spreading our VMs across data centres? A distributed cloud will indeed run across multiple geographical locations, using fast long-haul links to provide a functionally locationless global resource. More than that, it can (and should) also extend across different cloud…

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