Event Recap
RECAP | ROUNDTABLE | Data Center Resiliency in the Age of Cloud
26 Jun 2018
Inside Track’s June 5th Roundtable, Data Center Resiliency in the Age of Cloud, covered a wide range of ground in a number of areas. With Todd Traver, VP, IT Strategy & Optimization, Uptime Institute, sharing a global perspective, Inside Track members looked at how new resiliency strategies were sharing design and operation of data centers, as well business practices.
In one particularly animated discussion, a financial institution shared how it met the burden of demonstrating that its multi-facility strategy would succeed. The risk, the participant shared, meant that many applications could not be allowed outside of its own enterprise operated data centers. It also meant that applications hosted at third-party facilities were subject to rigid auditing, which meant strict requirements for third-party hosts. They both agreed that an army of risk managers is required to meet the regulatory burden.
A hosting provider noted that is changing its architecture to meeting growing demand for application resiliency, with shrinking demand for 2N or greater services and growing demand for N+1 facilities. Meeting the client’s price point is part of the challenge.
On a practical note, attendees discussed a methodology for changing architectures. Most agreed that creating alignment between the criticality of the application and the capabilities of the system was the essential first step. Yet, one attendee felt that distributed resiliency would be a challenge for them, given the number of legacy applications that could not be moved at a feasible cost.
After considerable discussion, participants tended to agree that financial institutions were taking the lead in this industry shift, driven, in part, by their regulatory environment.
In one particularly animated discussion, a financial institution shared how it met the burden of demonstrating that its multi-facility strategy would succeed. The risk, the participant shared, meant that many applications could not be allowed outside of its own enterprise operated data centers. It also meant that applications hosted at third-party facilities were subject to rigid auditing, which meant strict requirements for third-party hosts. They both agreed that an army of risk managers is required to meet the regulatory burden.
A hosting provider noted that is changing its architecture to meeting growing demand for application resiliency, with shrinking demand for 2N or greater services and growing demand for N+1 facilities. Meeting the client’s price point is part of the challenge.
On a practical note, attendees discussed a methodology for changing architectures. Most agreed that creating alignment between the criticality of the application and the capabilities of the system was the essential first step. Yet, one attendee felt that distributed resiliency would be a challenge for them, given the number of legacy applications that could not be moved at a feasible cost.
After considerable discussion, participants tended to agree that financial institutions were taking the lead in this industry shift, driven, in part, by their regulatory environment.
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