Backup Disaster Recovery Solutions for Smart Cities

Roughly 2.3 billion connected devices exist in smart cities like Tokyo, London, and New York, a whopping 42 percent increase from last year. Therefore, disaster recovery solutions are critical. For bolstering economic growth and enhancing the quality of life, companies must have a viable IT disaster recovery plan in place.

The Internet of Things (IoT) reduces energy consumption for things like water flow regulation and street light operation. However, top disaster recovery service providers predict this footprint will exceed 50 billion connected devices by 2020, creating a tremendous challenge. It is imperative that smart cities have an IT disaster recovery plan as protection against natural and man-made incidents that would make it difficult to use accurate data required to function optimally.

In addition to the risk of being on grids for outages, smart cities get targeted for cyber-attacks. To prevent multiple city services from shutting down from a single-entry point, an all-too-real possibility that would threaten the safety and health of the public, Cloud disaster recovery becomes vital.

Along with 162,000 square feet of colocation space at a dedicated Continuity Recovery site, Telehouse New York Teleport boasts ample offices to accommodate personnel should an adverse event occur.

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Telehouse Green: How Green Is My Cloud?

UNDERSTANDING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF CLOUD-BASED COMPUTING

Forrester estimates that worldwide spending on Public Cloud computing services will grow to $160 billion in 2020, a 22 percent annual growth rate from just five years ago. And it’s not just Public Cloud that is experiencing a spike, but Private and Hybrid Cloud usage too.

Among enterprises with 1000 or more employees, Private Cloud adoption increased from 63 percent to 77 percent, and Hybrid Cloud rose from 58 percent to 71 percent from 2015 to 2016, according to RightScale’s 2016 State of the Cloud survey. Enterprises that use the Cloud are, on average, leveraging three Public Clouds and three Private Clouds, each.

Businesses are increasingly opting to switch from internal resources to cloud-based computing to enjoy benefits such as faster scalability of capacity, pay-as-you-go pricing, and access to cloud-based applications and services without the need to purchase and manage expensive on-premises infrastructure.

But whether you’re considering a Public, Private or Hybrid Cloud configuration, as-a-service computing offers another distinct advantage over on-premise alternatives: It’s comparatively greener. A study by Accenture found that for large enterprise firms, Cloud adoption can cut energy use and carbon emissions by 30 to 60 percent in comparison to on-premise IT infrastructures. And for mid-sized firms using the Cloud, carbon emissions and energy consumption can be reduced by as much as 60 to 90 percent.

Let’s examine why.

Green That Is Virtually Self-Evident

Some of the reasons why cloud-based infrastructure is greener than on-premises equipment are…well…virtually self-evident.

Virtualization, the definitive technology at play, enables a single physical server to run multiple operating system images simultaneously. Through consolidation, server virtualization reduces the total physical server footprint. Less servers mean less power consumed and a reduced carbon footprint. Also, when less equipment is required to run workloads, this reduces data center space, and with less physical equipment plugged-in, a facility will consume less electricity.

It’s interesting to note that virtualization is nothing new. In fact, IBM pioneered the concept in the 1960s, but its potential has only been fully realized with the advent of modern data center and server technologies. Visit here for original source….

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Telehouse America
7 Teleport Drive,
Staten Island,
New York, USA 10311
Phone No: 718–355–2500
Email: gregory.grant@telehouse.com

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TELEHOUSE FOR TECHNOPHILES: THE LINK BETWEEN CLOUD ADOPTION AND CONNECTIVITY

How Surging Cloud Use is Making Connectivity a Differentiator for Data Centers

It’s safe to say that the global tech forecast is cloudy, and getting cloudier.

Consider this: According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index, global IP traffic will account for more than 92 percent of total global data center traffic by 2020.  In addition, cloud data center traffic for consumer and business applications will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 30 percent over the next three years, and 68 percent of cloud workloads will be processed by public cloud data centers – a 49 percent increase from 2015.

This migration to cloud computing can largely be attributed to performance-driven enterprises’ growing use of cloud-based applications. In one recent study conducted by Skyhigh Networks that surveyed various IT decision-makers, 79 percent of respondents claimed that they receive regular requests from end-users each month to buy more cloud applications. Among these applications, communication and collaboration via video, file and content sharing, and social media topped the list of the most frequently requested capabilities. Original source...


Contact Details:
Telehouse America
7 Teleport Drive,
Staten Island,
New York, USA
Zip Code: 10311
Phone No: 718–355–2500
Email: gregory.grant@telehouse.com

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