Redundant Data Center Architectures

Wed Oct 28 17:42:51 UTC 2009

Roland,

Could you elaborate on "GSLB"  (Global Load Balancing?) ?   Pardon if 
that question seems a bit "noob-ish"

Thanks

Roland Dobbins wrote:
>
> On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Stefan Fouant wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering what are the growing trends in connecting Data Centers 
>> for redundancy in DR/COOP environments.
>
> 'DR' is an obsolete 40-year-old mainframe concept; it never works, as 
> funding/testing/scaling of the 'backup' systems is never adequate 
> and/or allowed.
>
> Layer-2 between sites is evil, as well.
>
> Layer-3-independence and active/active/etc. is where it's at in terms 
> of high availability in the 21st Century.  GSLB, et. al.
>
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