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Old 04-26-2013, 10:42 AM  
StariaDaniel
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Originally Posted by Supz View Post
Mirroring? This is not mirroring. are you familiar with virtualization? do you understand what it does? Here are some of the statistics of people who use virtualization in production.

100% of Fortune 100
100% of Fortune 500
99.5% of Fortune 1000
100% of Fortune Global 100
98% of Fortune Global 500

People dont cluster or use high-availability anymore without virtualization.
I say again "I know about the advantages" - just didn't want to try it in productions without properly testing it before

Anyway, a Fortune 500 company usually controls the complete hardware, have staff in the DC (or their own DC ...) - that's kind of different of trusting a 3rd party with it - and way more costly. Also, just because they use it in production it doesn't mean they solely rely on it.

Additionally you need to keep off-site backups for yourself anyway no matter how "secure" you think something is (imagine a host going broke, fire/fatal accident in a DC, roque employee calling an rm -rf *, whatever) - like big companies "cloning" their DC completely a few hundred miles away, use tape storage systems, etc...
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