Event Recap
RECAP | ROUNDTABLE | How to Achieve Multi-Site Resiliency
A roundtable session held on February 26th provided the opportunity for Uptime Institute’s Todd Traver to solicit observations on multi-site resiliency with end users from across the adoption curve.
During the roundtable, Todd shared observations of how the industry had moved from single-site availability to multi-site resiliency, noting that multi-site resiliency was becoming the norm, as more critical IT loads were increasingly being supported at the edge or in applications hosted across multiple cloud providers.
The end users participating in the round table concurred with the observation that many workloads were moving from single site to multi-site resiliency construct. One participant noted that his IT operations included a wide variety of facility types and application types, to accommodate bursty and unpredictable workloads that had widely varied usage patterns and throughput rates, for advanced services applications, including advanced analytics that provide organization-wide benefits.
One roundtable participant joined the conversation to learn. He asked several questions, many centered on the need for testing, especially Network testing, and physical reliability. In a related topic, all agreed to the need for due diligence regarding SLAs in colocation facilities.
An executive from a financial group noted that the industry had spent many years developing a body of expertise around hardened infrastructure, only to find itself moving away from that protective environment. That said, he noted that concepts such as Tiers applied even in hybrid configurations. His organization extended those concepts to include Networking and other systems, meaning that tiers concepts remained very much relevant.
Finally, Todd asked whether hybrid environments cause any control/security concerns in IT environments, as executives lost visibility into the actions of personnel and the operations of the infrastructure. The participants agreed with the uptime institute’s findings, that “yes, executives are increasingly becoming more concerned about unplanned outages, in many cases due to hybrid configuration complexities, than even a year ago.
During the roundtable, Todd shared observations of how the industry had moved from single-site availability to multi-site resiliency, noting that multi-site resiliency was becoming the norm, as more critical IT loads were increasingly being supported at the edge or in applications hosted across multiple cloud providers.
The end users participating in the round table concurred with the observation that many workloads were moving from single site to multi-site resiliency construct. One participant noted that his IT operations included a wide variety of facility types and application types, to accommodate bursty and unpredictable workloads that had widely varied usage patterns and throughput rates, for advanced services applications, including advanced analytics that provide organization-wide benefits.
One roundtable participant joined the conversation to learn. He asked several questions, many centered on the need for testing, especially Network testing, and physical reliability. In a related topic, all agreed to the need for due diligence regarding SLAs in colocation facilities.
An executive from a financial group noted that the industry had spent many years developing a body of expertise around hardened infrastructure, only to find itself moving away from that protective environment. That said, he noted that concepts such as Tiers applied even in hybrid configurations. His organization extended those concepts to include Networking and other systems, meaning that tiers concepts remained very much relevant.
Finally, Todd asked whether hybrid environments cause any control/security concerns in IT environments, as executives lost visibility into the actions of personnel and the operations of the infrastructure. The participants agreed with the uptime institute’s findings, that “yes, executives are increasingly becoming more concerned about unplanned outages, in many cases due to hybrid configuration complexities, than even a year ago.
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