RESEARCH BRIEF: High Availability For Private Clouds

When moving from traditional IT to private cloud, there is generally a tradeoff between elasticity and availability, so only applications that do not demand the highest levels of availability can move to the cloud. Coding high availability (HA) into cloud applications generally has been complex and laborious; ongoing maintenance creates both a cost and liability for the developer.

With their always-on enterprise knowhow, Stratus is now bringing the high availability of their enterprise IT solutions to the world of private clouds. Stratus is developing a suite of software solutions that enable rapid deployment of always-on workloads within OpenStack clouds. With a beta program underway, they are already seeing success and are now expanding their initial offering based on program learnings.

Executive Summary
Elasticity Is Not Availability
The Stratus High Availability Cloud Program
Market Impact
Conclusion

You can download the paper here.

Companies Cited

Amazon
BASF
Canonical
Dolby
Microsoft
Netflix
Novell
Stratus
Terremark
Verizon
VMware

Patrick Moorhead

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Patrick founded the firm based on his real-world world technology experiences with the understanding of what he wasn’t getting from analysts and consultants. Ten years later, Patrick is ranked #1 among technology industry analysts in terms of “power” (ARInsights) in “press citations” (Apollo Research). Moorhead is a contributor at Forbes and frequently appears on CNBC. He is a broad-based analyst covering a wide variety of topics including the cloud, enterprise SaaS, collaboration, client computing, and semiconductors. He has 30 years of experience including 15 years of executive experience at high tech companies (NCR, AT&T, Compaq, now HP, and AMD) leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.