Read the original article at Crisis Management in the Crosshairs – Sandy

Crisis Management During Sandy The news this past week has brought endless images of devastation. All metropolitan region, the damage is apparent. More than once in conversation I’ve commented “That’s similar to what I do.” The response is often one of confusion. So I go on to clarify. Web operations is every bit about disaster [...]

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1. Real Disaster Recovery Lessons from Sandy
2. Database Change Management – What is it and why is it important?
3. Configuration Management – What is it and why is it important?
4. 5 Tips for Better Database Change Management
5. What is disaster recovery and why is it important?

Read the original article at Real Disaster Recovery Lessons from Sandy

Also find Sean Hull’s ramblings on twitter @hullsean. Having just spent the last 24 hours in lower manhattan, while Hurricane Sandy rolled through, it’s offered some first hand lessons on disaster recovery. Watching the city and state officials, Con Edison, first responders and hospitals deal with the disaster brings some salient insights. 1. What are [...]

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1. What is disaster recovery and why is it important?
2. MySQL Disaster Recovery
3. Disaster Recovery Services
4. Backup and Recovery in EC2 – 5 Point Checklist
5. High Availability – What is it and why is it important?

Read the original article at A History lesson for Cloud Detractors

We’ve all seen cloud computing discussed ad nauseam on blogs, on Twitter, Quora, Stack Exchange, your mom’s Facebook page… you get the idea. The tech bloggers and performance experts often pipe in with their graphs and statistics showing clearly that dollar-for-dollar, cloud hosted virtual servers can’t compete with physical servers in performance, so why is [...]

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1. Migrating to the Cloud – Why and why not?
2. 4 Considerations Migrating to The Cloud
3. Cloud Computing – What is it and why is it important?
4. The New Commodity Hardware Craze aka Cloud Computing
5. Cloud Computing – Disciplined Deployments

Read the original article at Top 3 Questions From Clients

1. This page or area of the website is very slow, why? There are a lot of components that make up modern internet websites, and a lot of places to get stuck in the mud.  Website performance starts with the browser, what caching it is doing, their bandwidth to your server, what the webserver is [...]

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1. Backups – What are they and why are they important?
2. Business Continuity Planning – What is it and why is it important?

Read the original article at 5 Ways to Avoid EC2 Outages

1. Backup outside of the Cloud Some of the high profile companies affected by Amazon’s April 2011 outage could have recovered had they kept a backup of their entire site outside of the cloud.  With any hosting provider, managed traditional data center or cloud provider, alternate backups are always a good idea.  A MySQL logical [...]

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1. Zero Downtime – What is it and why is it important?
2. Offsite Backups – What are they and why are they important?
3. Introduction to EC2 Cloud Deployments
4. 3 Ways to Boost Cloud Scalability
5. Newsletter 74 – Design For Failure