I came across this article on the Amazon Web Services blog. It describes a really interesting and powerful implementation of a disaster recovery solution using the Cloud.
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Once configured, CloudStation can fail over from local processing to the cloud, from one cloud region to another, or even from one cloud provider to another. It can also be used as a migration tool, or what is sometimes calls P2V (Physical to Virtual) or P2C (Physical to Cloud).
Kevin
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