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“Everything fails, all the time” Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.

The Cloud Will Fail

Hurricanes, BIOS updates, earthquakes, DNS failures, SSL certificates, storms … these were responsible for the last years cloud outage in cloud services and traditional data center infrastructure. What do they have in common?

Bad luck? Bad practice? Consequences? Maybe, what they teach us is that we need a “Plan B”.  If the core of our business is on the Internet, we need a disaster-proof infrastructure that enables us to stay on track (or recover) within a feasible time defined in our Business Continuity Plan. In this post I will focus on disaster recovery and its various facets. Before getting into the technical side, let me review some basics.

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“Hitting your cloud sweet spot” was the title of Newvem’s breakout session at re:Invent 2012 . I had the privilege to moderate a panel of cloud experts, who joined us to share their cloud operations status, challenges and gaps. Our panelists members were Ed Laczynski, VP Cloud Strategy & Architecture, Datapipe; Shane Myers, Operations at SmugMug; Andrew Kenny, VP Platform Engineering at Acquia; Eric Hammond, from alestic.com and Chemi Katz, VP Technical Operations at DoubleVerify.

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The policies for Disaster Recovery (DR) in an enterprise are driven by the criticality of applications and data. As the public cloud has gained in credibility, more and more IT teams are taking advantage of the failover public cloud provider as a way of addressing DR and ensuring business continuity.

On the following presentation Lahav Savir, architect and CEO of Emind Systems, gives an introduction to Disaster Recovery and presents his insights based on Emind’s best practices.

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The following presentation was created by Adrian Cockcroft – Director, Cloud Architecture at Netflix Inc. It contains slides from his talk at AWS Re:Invent November 2012. Adrian describes the architecture, how to make highly available application code and data stores, a taxonomy of failure modes, and actual failures and effects.

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Over the last year I had endless conversations with companies that strive to adopt the cloud – specifically the Amazon cloud. Of those I met, I can say that ClickSoftware is one of the leading traditional ISVs that managed to adopt the cloud.The Amazon cloud is with no doubt the most advanced cloud computing facility, leading the market.

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The following presentation was created by Dr. Matt Wood, Senior Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). It contains relevant information for those considering using Amazon Web Services to build high performance web applications. You will learn about the main building blocks (storage, compute, databases, managed services) for great applications and how to use AWS to support you along the way.

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In this article I will introduce our in-house best practice for an ultra-secure application deployment on the AWS cloud. This best practice is based on Emind System’s experience in performing dozens of infrastructure projects based on the Amazon Web Services’ platform.

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The following presentation was created by Adrian Cockcroft – Director, Cloud Architecture at Netflix Inc. It’s an architecture talk aimed at a well informed developer audience (i.e. QConSF Real Use Cases for NoSQL track), focused mainly on availability.

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During the Amazon AWS Summit 2012 in Tel Aviv (Israel) Galed Friedmann – Head of Operations at Onavo – went on stage to talk about his company’s experience using Amazon AWS services. This is a great case study on how a start up company can grow in the cloud running an extreme efficient operations in terms of utilization and cost.

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During the Amazon AWS Summit 2012 in Tel Aviv (Israel) Udi Keidar – VP Cloud Services at ClickSoftware – went on stage to present a very interesting AWS cloud case of a veteran ISV (independent Service Vendor) that successfully delivers its new enterprise SaaS offering over the AWS cloud.

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