Skyscape Announces OpenStack Support As Part Of Launch Of Next-Generation Platform

Skyscape Cloud Services Limited has announced the availability of OpenStack powered services to fully leverage the capabilities of its next-generation cloud platform. Skyscape has chosen to deploy OpenStack in order to support its UK Public Sector customers who have to comply with government policy which states open standards must be used when procuring ICT and delivering any new ICT solutions to ensure all government ICT assets are inter-operable.

Skyscape is dedicated to UK Public Sector organisations and its Cloud Native Infrastructure (powered by OpenStack) is designed specifically to support these organisations as they transition to digital and embrace an agile DevOps/WebOps culture to develop cloud native applications, which improve public services, increase agility, drive innovation and reduce costs. Skyscape’s assured OpenStack capability will accelerate digital transformation across the UK Public Sector by providing a truly open source platform that’s familiar to developers and meets government requirements for open standards.

OpenStack has established itself as the open standard cloud platform on which developers are able to build agile and elastic digital solutions, offering portability between on premise, private and public cloud environments. As OpenStack supports multi-cloud deployments, it removes any reliability on a single provider. This means UK Public Sector organisations no longer need to be ‘locked-in’ to proprietary platforms, instead they can manage pools of computing resource spread across different platforms as one and fully embrace cloud with maximum efficiency.

“We believe that OpenStack perfectly complements our existing platform and assurance capabilities to provide an end-to-end solution for the delivery of cloud services to further assist the UK Public Sector in its digital transformation,” said Simon Hansford, CEO of Skyscape Cloud Services. “This is why our new next-generation cloud platform will be the first to offer OpenStack compatible services for the exclusive use of the UK public sector, enabling us to provide an open source and portable cloud environment that maintains the levels of security, flexibility and value for money that our customers have come to expect.”

The Skyscape platform is built upon a fully packaged and tested OpenStack distribution, backed by a global specialist in open source software and standards. Unlike some other OpenStack cloud service providers, Skyscape is committed to using enterprise grade components from its partners such as Cisco and EMC to ensure it provides the highest level of platform availability and reliability. In addition, it’s committed to delivering the innovation developed by the OpenStack community; at launch its platform will be based on the Liberty release of OpenStack but it will quickly move to become one of the first UK public cloud providers to offer the latest release of OpenStack – Mitaka.

Skyscape’s OpenStack deployment enhances the company’s unique capabilities, including assured connectivity to Government networks, including the Public Services Network (PSN) and N3 health care communities. Its OpenStack platform will also remain optimised for OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE, with all data held across Skyscape’s two UK data centres.

Hansford continued, “Four years on from the launch of our first platform on the G-Cloud Framework’s debut iteration, the public sector is maturing and we’re seeing more complex requirements for genuine big data projects and multi-cloud deployments. Our next-generation OpenStack compatible platform will help our public sector customers liberate their cloud infrastructure and accelerate innovation, while also ensuring they comply with Government policy concerning open standards.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Entisys360 Unveils ‘Cloud First’ Strategy

Entisys360, formerly Entisys Solutions and Agile360 has announced the unveiling of its “Cloud First” strategy.

“Entisys360 is known throughout the industry for quickly responding to the evolving needs of our clients, while consistently staying ahead of the technology curve,” said Mike Strohl, CEO, Entisys360. “In becoming a ‘Cloud First’ company, we are again placing ourselves at the forefront of technology innovation — staying one step ahead of our clients by meeting tomorrow’s business needs, today.”

He added, “Advanced virtualization and cloud solutions from best-of-breed vendors, coupled with our innovative solutions architecture and professional services is also enabling us to drive the adoption of cloud-based infrastructure within our clients’ enterprises, regardless of whether it is a public, private or hybrid configuration.”

Entisys360’s “Cloud First” strategy includes the following areas:

• Microsoft: Focused around helping customers move workloads to the Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Store Simple platforms, this includes the development and implementation of private and hybrid cloud configurations where IT infrastructure is housed on-premise, and/or in a variety of Microsoft Cloud based platforms.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): The AWS platform offers a wide range of core services for cloud-based infrastructures. This technology is used to implement Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), DevOps-as-a-Service and other public and private cloud services. And, through AWS and Entisys360’s professional services, customers can also benefit from instructor-led workshops, migration planning and services, and Enterprise Managed Services (EMS).
• Entisys360 Desktop-in-the-Cloud: Entisys360 offers a full-featured Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) running in the AWS Cloud. Instant-on capabilities mean that clients can sign up and start using the Entisys360 Desktop-in-the-Cloud immediately, regardless of whether they have a single desktop or a network of thousands.
• Private Cloud Solutions: For customers deploying a combination of private and public cloud solutions within a hybrid model, Entisys360 offers complete solutions for on-premise private cloud configurations, instructor-led workshops, architectural planning and design, implementation, training and support services.
• As-a-Service Cloud Solutions: Based on the specific business requirements of the client, Entisys360 offers a number of “as-a-service” solutions including PaaS, DRaaS, SaaS, DBaaS and DevOps-as-a-Service. Prior to implementing these solutions, Entisys360’s expert cloud architects and consultants work with each client to evaluate their existing environment and develop strategic plans around when and how to move their enterprise to the cloud.
• Strategic Planning: Entisys360 solution architects and consultants evaluate the client’s overall business and technology environment, working together to create a vision, strategic roadmaps and provide operational readiness services. These services do not focus on any single cloud-based service, but instead are geared toward optimizing the business by leveraging cloud-based services.

“In becoming a ‘Cloud First’ company, we want to assure our valued clients and partners that nothing has changed in terms of our core offerings,” said Matt General, CTO, Entisys360. “In fact, as a trusted advisor in the deployment of advanced infrastructure, virtualization and cloud solutions, we are in a position where we can identify the best combination of products and services required to solve our clients’ most pressing IT challenges regardless of whether their infrastructure resides on-premise, in a data center or in the cloud.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

IBM Named Leader In Public Cloud IaaS Adoption By TBR

IBM has announced that it has been named the market leader in public cloud IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) adoption by leading independent technology market research firm, Technology Business Research, Inc. (TBR). In TBR’s semiannual Public Cloud Customer Research survey of 2,169 enterprise, respondents identified IBM as a leader because of its ability to provide customers with hybrid management tools while addressing data location and privacy concerns through a global network of data centers.

“We continue to see strong enterprise adoption of public cloud services being driven by the need for hybrid management tools and solutions,” said Kelsey Mason, analyst at TBR. “The market is also consolidating, which leaves very few players remaining that can address customer demands around global reach and scale, as well as data security and compliance.”

Other TBR evaluation criteria include the ability of IaaS providers to focus on attracting developers and building out more data center locations while adding more professional and managed services. Enterprise customers also looked at scalability and cost of public cloud making it a logical deployment model for initiatives around Internet of Things (IoT) and analytics.

“This report validates a much broader trend where companies are turning to the IBM Cloud for choice and consistency across public, private and hybrid environments,” says Jim Comfort, chief technology officer for IBM Cloud. “We’ve become the backbone and onramp to the cloud, giving enterprise customers the global reach, capacity and scale they need. Our cloud offering bridges the gap between on premise IT and cloud with versatility and ease.”

TBR’s Public Cloud Customer Research report is designed to provide a view into cloud adoption metrics and trends. For more information please click here.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Oracle Brings SPARC To The Cloud

Oracle has announced major new additions to the SPARC platform that for the first time bring the advanced security, efficiency, and simplicity of SPARC to the cloud. Built on the new SPARC S7 microprocessor, the latest additions to the SPARC platform include new cloud services, engineered systems and servers.

While the business benefits of the public cloud are increasingly clear, many organizations have yet to move enterprise workloads to the cloud due to performance, security and management concerns. To help eliminate those concerns and enable organizations to confidently move enterprise workloads to the cloud, the new SPARC platform is designed from the ground up to economically improve on cloud computing delivery of the most critical business applications and scale-out application environments.

The latest additions to the SPARC platform are built on the revolutionary new 4.27 GHz, 8-core/64-thread SPARC S7 microprocessor with Software in Silicon features such as Silicon Secured Memory and Data Analytics Accelerators, which delivers the industry’s highest per-core efficiency and enables organizations to run applications of all sizes on the SPARC platform at commodity price points. All existing commercial and custom applications will run on the new SPARC enterprise cloud services and solutions unchanged with significant improvements in security, efficiency and simplicity.

“We are still in the early phases of cloud computing adoption and as the market matures, organizations will increasingly move critical enterprise workloads to the cloud,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. “To enable our customers to take advantage of this next stage of cloud computing to speed innovation, reduce costs and drive business growth, we are focused on delivering proven enterprise-grade services such as the Oracle SPARC platform in the Oracle Cloud.”

Some of the key features of the new SPARC platform include:

Effortless Security: The latest additions to the SPARC platform are designed for security and compliance and utilize Silicon Secured Memory capabilities to address malware attacks and programming errors. Wide-key encryption ciphers and hashes enable a fully encrypted cloud with less than two percent performance overhead. In addition, security is further enhanced through verified boot, immutable content that prevents unauthorized changes, enforced secured updates and a trusted and secure hardware and software supply chain that does not rely on intermediaries.

Breakthrough Efficiency: By taking advantage of the open APIs in the processor and integrated Data Analytics Accelerators, which deliver up to 10x greater analytics performance spanning enterprise, big data and cloud applications, the latest additions to the SPARC platform reduce latency and cost. When compared to the x86 servers, the fully integrated S7-2 and S7-2L servers delivers up to 100 percent better per core efficiency, 1.7x better per core Java performance efficiency, 1.6x per core database OLTP performance efficiency, and 2-3x more bandwidth for high-traffic analysis and cloud apps.

Straightforward Simplicity: Taking integration a step beyond the server, the Oracle MiniCluster S7-2 Engineered System dramatically simplifies the top four most challenging aspects of enterprise computing: security and compliance; high availability; patching and administration; and performance tuning. By eliminating the need for a standard platform or OS and reducing security and database administration time and effort, the new Engineered System enables organizations to:

• Secure systems by default by eliminating enterprise security expertise requirements
• Automate compliance monitoring and auditing in order to maintain the secure state of the system over time
• Make service resiliency effortless by taking advantage of a high availability operation that is engineered in to the hardware and software
• Ensure the platform will always be up to date with the latest software and security enhancements through simple full stack patching
• Enhance database and application performance through automatic performance tuning.

The new SPARC S7 processor-based cloud services and systems deliver commodity x86 economics and significant enterprise-class functionalities for security and analytics with Software in Silicon. They include new Oracle Cloud Compute platform services, the Oracle MiniCluster S7-2 Engineered System and Oracle SPARC S7 servers. These new products are designed to seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure and include fully integrated virtualization and management for cloud.

The new Oracle SPARC Cloud service that is now part of the SPARC platform is a dedicated compute service to provide organizations with a simple, secure and efficient compute platform in the Cloud. The new service extends the complete suite of cloud services that Oracle provides to help organizations rapidly build and deploy rich applications — or extend Oracle Cloud Applications — on an enterprise-grade cloud platform.

To extend the security and performance benefits of the Oracle SuperCluster engineered systems to mid-size computing, Oracle has also introduced Oracle MiniCluster S7-2. Through full application and database compatibility with SuperCluster M7, Oracle MiniCluster enables organizations to reduce hardware and software costs at a fraction of the cost of commodity solutions. The new Oracle Engineered System is designed to support multi-tenant application and/or database consolidation, remote office/branch office computing demands and test/development environments.

Oracle has also introduced new additions to the SPARC server product line that extend the M7/T7 portfolio to address scale-out and cloud workloads at attractive new low price points. The new two-socket SPARC S7 servers are available in different configuration options that are optimized for either compute or storage and IO density and include Software in Silicon offload features for malware attack prevention, no compromise encryption and data analytics acceleration.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Fusion Partners With Telarus to Provide Cloud Services

Fusion has announced its partnership with Telarus, a leading value added distributor of network, UCaaS, and cloud services. Telarus has been rated a top resource in helping partners, IT VARs, MSPs, integrators, and communications professionals easily source data, voice, and cloud services through its patented pricing tools. Telarus will distribute Fusion’s fully integrated suite of cloud communications, cloud connectivity and managed network services, and cloud computing solutions through its extensive national distribution network of more than 2,000 sub-partners.

“Telarus and Fusion share a passion for service excellence and a desire to help our mutual partners and customers grow faster, stronger and smarter,” said Matthew Rosen, Fusion’s chief executive officer. “Telarus is well known and respected for its innovation in seeking new ways to help its agents succeed and grow. With Fusion’s single source solution for the cloud, Telarus partners will be able to offer everything an enterprise needs to successfully migrate to the cloud, and profit from its many benefits,” Rosen continued.

“Telarus places the highest value on team success,” said Patrick Obom, Telarus co-founder. “We’re firm in our conviction that individual success is only meaningful when it’s shared, and we’re committed to helping our partners win every step of the way. Telarus is focused on providing hands-on support from pre-sale to post-sale, helping develop marketing and business development strategies and working in concert with our providers to ensure an exceptional customer experience. That’s why we’re delighted to partner with Fusion, whose unwavering commitment to delivering the highest level of service is every bit as passionate as our own,” Oborn stated.

“Fusion appreciates the value of strong, enduring partner relationships and works closely with the channel to help distribute the company’s advanced, fully integrated cloud solutions to businesses nationwide,” said Russell P. Markman, Fusion’s president of Business Services. “Fusion’s expanding partner network receives expert, professional support from the company’s experienced sales, technical and customer service teams, and in-depth, ongoing training on technology, product and process. Fusion is committed to delivering the resources needed to attract, secure and maintain opportunities and drive our mutual success,” continued Markman.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Dimension Data Unveils Next Generation Digital Technologies And Applications For Tour De France

Dimension Data and Amaury Sport Organization (A.S.O.) have announced significant enhancements to the big data cycling analytics platform that will deliver real-time information to viewers, commentators and teams at the 2016 Tour de France.

Headlining the innovations is Race Center, a web-based application hosted on Dimension Data’s cloud platform and developed in partnership with A.S.O. that combines live race data, video, photographs, social media feeds, and race commentary, which combines with a new live tracking website to give viewers an immersive digital experience that goes beyond the television coverage of the race.

Race Center will become A.S.O.’s digital hub of the Tour de France going forward. And the live tracking website is a testament to the evolution of Dimension Data’s real-time big data collection, analytics, and digital platforms over the past 12 months.

Viewers will be able to get far richer and more accurate information from each of the 198 riders in 22 teams, including speed, distance between riders, composition of the race pelotons, wind speed and direction, as well as prevailing weather conditions.

Many of the new technologies that were trialed at last year’s race are now production-ready and feature significant improvements across the board. This year, the telemetry sensors installed under each rider’s seat that are responsible for transmitting live data boast a tenfold increase in transmission range. This means far fewer dropouts or ‘gaps’ in the data, resulting in more seamless communication and continuity throughout the race.

Dimension Data’s big data truck has also been upgraded and enlarged to accommodate the various television graphics, race coordination, data capture and analytics teams responsible for delivering the complete end-to-end data solution at the 2016 Tour de France. This is one of the biggest changes from last year, where each team worked separately, and continues the theme of collaboration and data integration made possible by the advancements in the technologies on display.

Adam Foster, Dimension Data’s group executive, Sports Practice, said, “The enhancements to this year’s solutions means we can tell richer and more enhanced stories as they happen, giving viewers, the media, cycling fans and race commentators deeper insights into some aspects of the sport that weren’t available until now. This year, we’re working with a much broader palette, which means access to more meaningful race data, race routes, riders and current weather conditions. What’s exciting this year is the ability to deliver all of this information to A.S.O. through a unified digital platform. This makes the quality of the data even more valuable for viewer engagement, and speaks directly to a generation of younger viewers who rely on new technologies such as social media and live video to engage with their world.”

Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France, A.S.O, said, “The unprecedented growth in different social channels such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and live video at last year’s race demanded these technologies be embraced and enhanced for modern viewers.”

“The Tour de France is a flagship event in a modern world, and it’s only natural that we give our viewers access to as much quality content, entertainment and analysis as possible through the media they use every day,” said Prudhomme. “Together with Dimension Data, we’ve been working on new ways to appeal to our billions of viewers, and we’re excited to showcase the result of our efforts through Race Center. I believe the appeal of having access to multiple real-time video, social media and live race information from one responsive and intuitive interface will greatly enhance the quality of coverage of the Tour de France, and become an essential companion to the largest live televised event in the world.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

ClearDB And Datavail Form Partnership

ClearDB has announced that it has partnered with Datavail, the largest provider of remote database administration (DBA) services in North America, to provide 24/7 expanded database services to ClearDB’s more than 200,000 clients around the world. The partnership enables ClearDB to combine its database as a service (DBaaS) and cloud capabilities with Datavail’s remote monitoring, customer support and database administration (DBA) services to provide an end-to-end solution for small, medium, and large enterprise customers and channel partners.

As data growth accelerates, the demand for talented DBAs is rising sharply while the availability of DBAs is shrinking. As a result, the demand for database as a service (DBaaS) and remote database administration services has seen a spike in recent years. The joint ClearDB and Datavail offerings deliver highly available, highly efficient database services — all combined in a single, extremely affordable solution.

As part of the partnership, Datavail will provide a comprehensive set of database administration services providing customers simple access to a fully managed cloud database. Deployed today with major cloud suppliers, ClearDB integrates geo-distributed and database virtualization technologies with global orchestration, provisioning, billing, telemetry and support into a centralized on-demand licensing and delivery model that simplifies the management of database assets.

“ClearDB’s vision is to deliver a nonstop, secure, integrated data services platform that leverages our proven cloud technologies and the experiences that we’ve gained providing services to more than 200,000 users. Our partnership with Datavail allows us to take our offering one step further,” said Allen Holmes, ClearDB vice president of marketing and platform alliances. “With Datavail’s 24/7 support and extensive DBA services, ClearDB is able to provide a robust end-to-end solution and offer increased platform benefits to a wide variety of applications and database types including Oracle, Mongo, SQL Server and other databases in a single solution.”

Designed to work on major public clouds and to support private cloud and on-premises operations, ClearDB’s nonstop data services platform automates the provisioning and management process with an intuitive services framework that accelerates performance and guarantees high availability in any cloud marketplace, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, AppFog, SoftLayer and IBM Bluemix. In addition, ClearDB delivers nonstop access and availability with multi-regional read/write mirroring and offers advanced security features to keep data secure in the cloud.

“Datavail is pleased to work with ClearDB to offer customers the robustness of a highly available, 24×7 managed database from the convenience of the cloud,” said Scott Frock, chief operating officer at Datavail. “With our end-to-end offering, customers can focus on their applications, confident their data is protected and always available to the business.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Dataguise Releases DgSecure 6.0

Dataguise has announced the general availability of Dataguise DgSecure® 6.0, the company’s next-generation data-centric security platform. DgSecure 6.0 enables businesses to take complete ownership of sensitive data across all source types within the enterprise, from traditional relational databases to big data platforms, as well as unstructured data.

DgSecure 6.0 delivers a comprehensive monitoring solution for all data source types, allowing users to quickly understand what, where, and how sensitive data is being detected, protected, and accessed across the enterprise. The advanced features in version 6.0 provide all-in-one sensitive data governance, privacy compliance, and risk mitigation for total ownership of sensitive data in all its forms.

DgSecure 6.0 provides for total ownership of sensitive data with new features that include:

• Compatibility with all data platforms and source types. This includes structured, semi-structured to completely unstructured, in environments ranging from the Cloud to on-premises computing sources.
• Management of all sensitive data life cycle phases, from detection, protection, and monitoring, for total governance.
• Support for the widest range of IT and data management frameworks, to enhance the operational experience of data stewards and CISOs.

While traditional IT monitoring solutions for firewalls, networks, or applications can result in months of analysis before a potential breach is spotted, DgSecure 6.0 is focused solely on safeguarding the truly sensitive data in an organization to quickly detect and protect against real threats. DgSecure 6.0 simplifies creation of data security governance policies using built-in or custom templates, thereby expediting the process. The solution then analyzes actions taken on sensitive data by people, systems, and devices in real time. If a policy violation occurs, the platform generates a precise, real-time alert in response to unauthorized or unusual data access.

“Hortonworks is dedicated to expanding and empowering the big data ecosystem, and accelerating innovation and adoption of Connected Data Platforms,” said Matt Morgan, vice president of product and alliance marketing, Hortonworks. “We congratulate Dataguise on the launch of Dataguise DgSecure 6.0 and look forward to working with them to enhance the next-generation data architecture.”

“Many organizations lack a proper framework to accurately detect, protect, and monitor their confidential data in real-time,” said Manmeet Singh, CEO, Dataguise. “DgSecure 6.0 is our answer to enterprise-wide security and compliance across an organization’s entire data infrastructure. With the newest release, customers gain the insight and protection they need to confidently unlock the full potential of their data. We look forward to introducing our latest innovations at the Hadoop Summit this week.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

NASCAR is digitizing race day
In a sport where winning often comes down to thousandths of a second, data matters. NASCAR is going high-tech with new race management software.

NASCAR GOES HIGH TECH

At the Toyota/Save Mart 350 something new, a race management system that gives officials a single-screen from which to monitor the racetrack, where cars are, review infractions and share that with teams.

It’s the result of 18 months development that started here, in the inspection tent where NASCAR officials check cars to make sure everything is within the sport’s rules.

This all used to be done on slips of paper, so the sport worked with Microsoft to come up with a tablet based app that collects, stores and transmits the results of every test.

“Giving us data that we never had before, allowing us to see things from the inspection that we were never able to see before, because everything was paper based.”

NASCAR says its inspection times have been cut in half.

So attention turned to the race track, where several independent systems were already in use tracking different elements of the race. A new Windows 10 app brings them all together with powerful results.

“During the race itself i can come down, i can look at info abotu a particular car, their last lap speed, average lap time, all of the pitstops they made”

Cars are shown in actual locations on this screen and officials can pair that data with live video of the race. The app also pulls in video from pit stops so officials can see whether drivers broke any rules and, if so, share that with the teams in realtime.

“If there was an infraction on pit row, we’d explain it verbally, we’ll get back to you monday or tuesday, have a question ‘what really happeneds?’ we’d try to explain it. In this case, realtime video we can get to the race team, hopefully have that communication, here was that infraction, post race meet with the team and here’s why the call was made.”

And it also allows officials to figure out exactly where cars where when race holds were called, perhaps in response to an accident. Sometimes cars end up in the wrong order and the system helps sort that out so when the green flag falls again, no car has lost a place.

It’s a powerful tool for a sport that runs in real time.

“NASCAR is the only sport where every second of every race, we don’t have time to call a time out or a TV timeout, let the officials sit over on the side, we’ve gotta make a quick call and this allows us to do that.”

Like most major sports, NASCAR is keen to use new technology to innovate and bring faces closer to the action. And that could happen in the future if this data is shared online, so fans can keep track during the race. There’s even the idea of employing machine learning to help officials predict things before they happen.

Source: InfoWorld Big Data

Next-Generation Cloud Now Available At Online Tech’s Midwest Data Centers

Online Tech has announced that its Indiana and Michigan cloud infrastructure is now running an all-flash, encrypted array based on hardware solutions by Pure Storage. This investment will provide businesses in the Midwest region with an ultra-fast, secure, and scalable enterprise-class local cloud that organizations can trust with their mission-critical applications and manage their growing Big Data needs.

The new flash technology, previously only available to large enterprises, gives Online Tech’s cloud hosting clients 80 Gb/s bandwidth and over 400,000 IOPS performance. With encryption built in to the hardware, this storage solution provides the data security that their clients demand with no impact to performance and without the hassle of key management.

“We’re thrilled at the new capabilities and security that encrypted flash technology has brought to our cloud infrastructure,” said Jason Yaeger, online tech senior director, Solutions Architecture. “This isn’t your average cloud using single component hosts that you see at the large public providers. Our architecture protects our clients against hardware component failure, which saves them from having to purchase additional servers and load balance them. You automatically get hardware component failure protection.”

Online Tech’s cloud architecture is built on the no-single-point-of-failure infrastructure of their enterprise-class data centers. With redundant controllers, switches, routers, generators, UPS, and HVAC systems, all critical equipment is at least N+1 allowing for the reliability of service that few companies can afford to provide.

Source: CloudStrategyMag