Geoff Sinn is Principal Cloud Consultant for Dimension Data, Americas. He is recognized as a pioneer and thought leader in the area of Managed Services and Cloud Computing and has successfully implemented a Managed Services business six times, both as new ventures inside larger companies and as stand-alone entities. Geoff has over two decades of experience covering a wide range of disciplines including storage; backup; replication; disaster recovery/business continuity; e-discovery, software-as-a-service; archiving; security; remote monitoring and management; and hosting.
In a constant effort to improve customers' cloud experience and increase
adoption, cloud providers are starting to introduce WAN optimization
capabilities into their service offerings. This technology will allow
organizations to realize significant performance improvements for cloud
applications. For providers who have global cloud ecosystems, this is an
extremely important step forward. One area in particular that will benefit
from WAN optimization is Recovery as a Service (RaaS), a cloud-based solution
that uses predetermined sets of processes to allow enterprises to implement
disaster recovery in the cloud. Traditional disaster recovery/business
continuity (DR/BC) solutions, including hot sites and secondary data centers,
have commonly been costly to implement, and RaaS solutions have emerged as a
better alternative.
RaaS is still a fairly young technology, but... (more)
Geoff Sinn is Principal Cloud Consultant for Dimension Data, Americas. He is recognized as a pioneer and thought leader in the area of Managed Services and Cloud Computing and has successfully implemented a Managed Services business six times, both as new ventures inside larger companies and as stand-alone entities. Geoff has over two decades of experience covering a wide range of disciplines including storage; backup; replication; disaster recovery/business continuity; e-discovery, software-as-a-service; archiving; security; remote monitoring and management; and hosting. 
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