Has traditional IT taken a wrong turn and failed us?  Watch our cloud roundtable discuss more, then tweet us your thoughts @Stratus4Uptime.

Dave LeClair recently co-presented on virtualization and uptime  at Angelbeat‘s New York conference.   His presentation, below, covers how organizations must optimize their existing and internal server/storage/data center infrastructure for maximum efficiency, combining the best of virtual and private cloud functionality, before considering external/outsourced public cloud services.

Included in his Virtualization and Uptime Presentation are:

-Average costs of downtime, including information on loss of reputation, money and data

-Companies who recently suffered downtime – and for how long

-Exactly how much time the “nines” mean

-Causes of downtime

-Rising importance of application uptime

-Data on high availability with virtualized applications and datacenters

-Recommendations for virtualization success

Flip though his slidedeck to learn the consequences of downtime and how it impacts your business. Get information on how the trend to virtualize tier one applications creates single points of failure for applications and how high availability or fault tolerant solutions can minimize the risk.

Watch this video on cloud computing to see our cloud roundtable discuss what companies are saying about the cloud and if they should chose a public, private or hybrid cloud.

We created a Ning aboutUPTIME community to serve as a forum for discussing how and why IT uptime is so important
in our lives, both personally and professionally. I hope everyone, from CIOs and IT pros to industry
analysts, media, bloggers and business managers will express their point of view and share experiences
related to IT uptime, as well as the technologies intended to provide it 24/7 to people that rely on it in
both serious and fun ways.

I encourage you to sign on and visit regularly. Relate interesting information you have found. Share your
opinions and ideas on posts other people have contributed.

Here you will also find video, photos and a real-time news feed about IT uptime/downtime instances.
We’ll also keep you in the know about related events and conferences.

I’ll see you back here, and on aboutUPTIME!

Solid state storage has been available for many years as a means to accelerate IO operations and reduce latency.  However, they have historically been relegated to niches that placed a high enough value on performance that they were willing to accept the price premium.

Recently, a new generation of solid state devices has emerged.  Using the latest in memory technology and powered by sophisticated controllers these devices deliver the performance equivalent of multiple hard disk drives at a fraction of the cost of previous generation solid state devices. But all solid state storage is not equal and not for everyone.

In this webcast, Dan Fallon is a Product Manager for Stratus Technologies discusses the basics of solid state storage, the various methods used to deliver the technology, performance capabilities, and future directions for solid state.

Download the slides to learn more about Stratus Solid State Disks Tech Webinar.