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How Google Keeps Your Data Safe in the Cloud?

Mar 5th

Posted by cloudtweaks in Cloud Computing

In a blog post today, Google essentially reminds its enterprise customers that Google Apps provides an alternative to expensive, complex solutions as far as data disaster recovery goes.

Synchronous replication is a system that Google Apps uses to store customer’s info in two data centers at once, so that if one data center fails, Google says it nearly instantly transfers data over to the other one that’s also been reflecting the actions taken by the customer all along.

On the practical side this means that thanks to the cloud-based storage solution, Google customers won’t lose any data in a data center failure. Just as crucially, they are theoretically back up and running straight away — although the online giant does acknowledge that no backup solution is perfect.

This synchronous replication is applied to the entire Apps suite as well as Gmail (Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites), with the sales angle being enterprise-class back-up for all at a much lower cost than if companies were to provide or contract separately for their own data redundancy systems.

Google, ever keen to push its Apps suite to new corporate clients of all sizes, estimates that this kind of backup could cost up to $500 for 25GB of data from other providers, but says it can bundle it in because it’s already running large, fast data centers.

This is essentially Google reminding enterprise customers (and potential customers) about one of the significant benefits of cloud computing over traditional in-house server farm data storage. How does your business handle data backup and redundancy issues? Do you think cloud computing is the ideal solution to hardware failure?

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How to install Wordpress in Amazon EC2 using BitNami?

Jan 28th

Posted by cloudtweaks in Amazon

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BitNami Cloud images extend stack appliances to run in a cloud computing environment. You can run BitNami applications on a pay-as-you-go basis, programmatically starting and stopping them. BitNami cloud images are currently available for Amazon EC2 and GoGrid, with planned support for additional cloud environments. Learn more about BitNami Cloud Images.

For both GoGrid and Amazon, the default application login information is provided below. Please change this to avoid unauthorized access:

username: user
password: bitnami

You can find additional documentation at the Bitnami Virtual Machine FAQ.

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To deploy a BitNami Stack on Amazon EC2, copy the appropriate AMI name from the table below (based on whether you want to deploy on servers (in the US or Europe) and visit the BitNami AMI Guide for a tutorial on how to get started.