Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall

First, let me get rid of a bee in my bonnet.  At a recent round table, while many argued that business continuity was just one aspect of disaster recovery, I argued that business continuity and disaster recovery were two completely different things.  To me, disaster recovery starts from the premise that a catastrophic failure will [...]

When “East-West” is More than Pacific to Atlantic

When discussing cloud computing, the term “East-West latency” often comes up as users on one coast of the US have found themselves using data centres on the opposite coast – and find that the user experience was not quite as they would wish. The direct distance between San Diego, California on the western seaboard to [...]