Tag: recovery

How to Get the Supply Chain Back to (Better than) Normal
If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, today’s supply chain is in dire straits. A recent infographic from The New York Times shows all too clearly that the ...

When Bad Things Happen to Good Clouds: Why You Need a Recovery Plan
Amazon S3 storage service recently experienced a widespread five-hour outage in its East Coast availability zone. Many next-generation consumer and business applications rely on a cloud storage, so the S3 outage quickly ...

Backup and Recovery for Distributed Databases
Over the past five years, applications have undergone a paradigm shift. They now require more agility, scalability and availability. The key trends in this era are driven by the use of social platforms, mobile ...

Backup and Recovery of MongoDB, Part 2
This blog is the second in a two-part series on backup and recovery for MongoDB. In one of my previous blogs, I covered why companies require both replication and backup for enterprise ...

Top 5 Reasons to Back Up Your OpenStack Environment
I am a big fan of lists. If you recall the movie "High Fidelity," John Cusack’s character Rob and his co-workers—armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical—compile "top five" lists ...