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Benefits of a 3-Datacenter Model

With 24/7 processing and business continuation paramount, more organizations are considering having three datacenters, where primary and secondary datacenters are in their immediate region and a third is in a remote geography. Why? To avoid repercussions of a major disaster that could hit every IT resource in a specific region.
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Mary E. Shacklett
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Monday March 26, 2012 11:07:10 PM
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Yes, I doubt you could ever put a price tag  on the cost of not having service, Mary.

Apparently, many enterprises see this, too--because the multiple data center solution is not cheap!

 

 

Mary Jander
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Monday March 26, 2012 5:53:26 PM
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Thanks Mary for profiling a trend that seems to boost the reliability of enterprise resources. It seems like a great model for companies that simply can't afford an outage. The cost of implementing it would certainly compare favorably to the cost of being without service, no?
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