Using Containers for Disaster Recovery

Data Center Knowledge (Jun 1 2009) Container , Cloud Computing , Storage

1. In February 2008, David Giambruno initiated a global restructuring project at cosmetics maker Revlon that took advantage of the company's regular-capacity refresh cycle to engineer a technology leap. His goal was to replace Revlon's disparate, global storage architecture with an integrated one that consolidated and virtualized server resources for faster service response, improved disaster recovery capability, and increased operational efficiency. Rather than have parallel datacenters and SANs in various countries, Giambruno's plan put high-capacity storage at five sites across the world, consolidating data and applications at its U.S. datacenter. Using the same shipping system as for its cosmetics manufacturing, Revlon sent out five pre-loaded "Mini Me" datacenter containers to its four other IT centers, creating a global disaster recovery network of identical systems that assured resources would work when moved. These Mini Me datacenters have the SAN, storage, and severs for both local operations and can ... (Read Full Article)

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