Case of the Great Hot-Site Swap 119
BobB writes "Two universities — Bowdoin in Maine and Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles — have entered a unique arrangement under which they are backing up each other's web sites, email and servers on different ends of the continent. They say this could be a disaster recovery model all sorts of organizations could follow. From the article: 'When Bowdoin switched over to Exchange e-mail, so the schools would have similar e-mail infrastructure, LMU staffers were their guides and advisers. "We implemented that pretty quickly," says Davis, the Bowdoin CIO. "When we launched Exchange, we had just eight calls to our help desk." And the shared experience of the infrastructure components then forms a kind of informal help desk, where managers and staff can reach out for advice, brainstorm and troubleshoot problems with their colleagues a continent away.'"
How about just collocation? (Score:1, Informative)
I guess we should have submitted an article to trade magazines to give us more publicity also.
Re:VPN connection over a 30Mbps link. (Score:5, Informative)
on a less formal/intense level: higher ed dns (Score:3, Informative)
mtnBook:~ $ whois rochester.edu
Name Servers:
NS1.UTD.ROCHESTER.EDU 128.151.2.1
NS2.UTD.ROCHESTER.EDU 128.151.7.6
SIMON.CS.CORNELL.EDU
DNS.CS.WISC.EDU
mtnBook:~ $ whois cornell.edu
Name Servers:
BIGRED.CIT.CORNELL.EDU 128.253.180.2
DNS.CIT.CORNELL.EDU 192.35.82.50
CAYUGA.CS.ROCHESTER.EDU
mtnBook:~ $ whois ucsb.edu
Name Servers:
NS1.UCSB.EDU 128.111.1.1
NS2.UCSB.EDU 128.111.1.2
KNOT.BROWN.EDU
There's a bunch more NYU/UCBerkeley, WUSTL/ULA, etc.
Several universities in Ohio already doing this (Score:2, Informative)
Re:One of the main problem is... (Score:3, Informative)
The problem is, a lot of the people trying to access your computer nowadays want to put you in jail somehow.
Re:VPN connection over a 30Mbps link. (Score:2, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2 [wikipedia.org]
So I take a look at Abilenes website and find this map: http://abilene.internet2.edu/peernetworks/domestic .html [internet2.edu]
From what I can see here, It does not look like the Internet2 network reaches as far north as Maine.
Having been born and raised in Maine (living in CA now), this really comes as no surprise to me. There are only about 1.2 million people there, certainly considered the "last mile" by most providers (cell, cable, dsl...)
Re:VPN connection over a 30Mbps link. (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.internet2.edu/network/library/deploymen t_phases.pdf [internet2.edu]
http://www.internet2.edu/network/deployment.html [internet2.edu]