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DECA Case Study: Sys-Con Media

Bob — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:10 +0000

Founded in 2009, DECA Financial Services is an accounts receivable management (ARM) agency experienced in collecting debt of any type. After experiencing tremendous capital expenditures on technology infrastructure and personnel at a prior employer, the DECA founders searched for a cloud hosting provider that offered ease-of-use and scalability to host their technology platform. Being a technology-driven agency, DECA needed a robust infrastructure platform to run all of its processes, while not having to deal with the IT resources, people and costs associated with owning the infrastructure hardware.

http://bobroudebush.sys-con.com/node/1480832

SaaS Infrastructure Choices: An Analysis

Bob — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:59:41 +0000

This is a presentation that I delivered as part of Softletter’s SaaS University event in Washington, D.C. on July 20th, 2010. I discussed the challenges for most software companies of moving to a SaaS model and what choices they have for hosting the infrastructure required for the new solution.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103761/SaaS%20University%20DC.pptx

Happenings In The Cloud

Bob — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:06:56 +0000

Sixto Ortiz Jr. featured my employer, BlueLock, and me in an article on Processor.com (circ. 169,569). My comments were highlighted numerous times throughout the article about new technologies/trends readers should be paying attention to in the area of cloud computing.

http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3214/28p14/28p14.asp&guid

Does This Cloud Make My App Look Fat?

Bob — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:28:09 +0000

The topic of the 5 minute lightning talk was about scaling applications in the cloud.� I�hope it was well-received.� In the on-premise, physical server world both �scale-up� and �scale-out� approaches were impractical based on cost and complexity.� 4-way or 8-way servers with gobs and gobs of RAM are an expensive way to grow vertically and add performance and though smaller systems used as part of a horizontal scaling approach are less expensive initially, they add a whole new level of complexity and expense in terms of ongoing maintenance.�� What�s more, during non-peak times all this compute infrastructure sat largely un(der)-utilized.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCkRrShA0k

TechEd 2009 Presentation – Hyper-V HA/DR

Bob — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:48:34 +0000

High Availability, Disaster Recovery Considerations for Microsoft Hyper-V

Download the PPT Here

Hyper-V Virtualization enables multiple IT workloads to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs).� Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. With this capability, however, comes an increased need for managing planned and unplanned downtime. A well developed disaster recovery plan is essential for every infrastructure, whether physical or virtual.� In this technical presentation, Mr. Roudebush will focus briefly on an architectural overview of Hyper-V from the perspective of high availability and disaster recovery and discuss strategic solutions for protecting virtualized workloads on Hyper-V.� This will cover both capabilities in the product today, publically-available information on future Hyper-V releases as well as solutions enabled by third-party vendors.

Objectives:
1. Provide attendees with an overview of Hyper V architecture;
2. Discuss features for high availability for Hyper V; and
3. Focus on how organizations can prepare disaster recovery solutions ahead of time with Hyper V.

VMworld Europe Interviews w/Speedfire 3 of 3

Bob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:23:51 +0000

Trends for the disaster recovery market for 2009.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/speedfire/videos/194/

VMworld Europe Interviews w/Speedfire 2 of 3

Bob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:21:46 +0000

Speaking about an important strategy change, new products and services that are coming in 2009.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/speedfire/videos/195/

VMworld Europe Interviews w/Speedfire 1 of 3

Bob — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:13:49 +0000

Why haven’t storage vendors moved more into the DR market in terms of broad-based replication or DR solutions?

http://www.viddler.com/explore/speedfire/videos/196/

VMworld Europe 2009 Presentation

Bob — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:49:39 +0000

An Optimized Approach to Workload Availability in Virtualized Environments

Virtualization enables multiple IT workloads to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. However, not every application can or will be virtualized and the adoption of virtualization will bring with it a rise in the number of mixed physical and virtual environments. As a result, organizations of all sizes will struggle with the challenge of recovering and optimizing critical workloads in this more diverse IT landscape. While visualization has enabled new methods for predictable protection and recovery of physical workloads, at the same time it introduces new challenges for protecting virtualized workloads.

In this session, Bob Roudebush of Double-Take Software will address the technical considerations for providing high availability and disaster recovery of physical servers using traditional protection solutions as well as newer solutions that combine aspects of real-time data replication and full-server recovery. In addition, the session will cover options for protecting virtualized workloads including leveraging technologies like VMotion, SAN-based replication solutions and software-based replication and availability products.

Click Here to Download the PPT for this Presentation

TechReady 2009 – Internal MSFT Presentation

Bob — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:51:16 +0000

Disaster Recovery Solutions with Hyper-V and Double-Take Software

Technical presentation to internal Microsoft field technical sales and professional services personnel about disaster recovery and high availability for Hyper-V virtualized environments.