Google Apps now disaster proof
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 20:34 on March 4, 2010
For IT admins in small and large companies prepping for disaster and emergency situations is not only complicated but also very expensive.
Typically in situations where tapes or SANs are used, companies lose data such as email, in the period between the time that the system went down and the last backup, plus the time needed to get the system up and running again.
To minimize the data loss companies can resort to synchronous replication where data is simultaneously replicated in two data centers at once.
According to Google, the cost to back up 25GB of data with synchronous replication so no data gets lost, can range from $150 to $500+ in storage and maintenance costs per employee.
Today Google has made an announcement that for the Google Apps enterprise users, Google Apps is now fully prepared for emergency scenarios through synchronous replication over their different data centers… for free.
