TheDreamforceevent is four months away. This is its 8th year and last year more than 20,000 people gathered in San Francisco to attend this Salesforce.com event and learn about cloud computing.
Date: December 6-9, 2010
Location: San Francisco, California
Who attends?
Service professionals
Sales professionals
Marketing professionals
Salesforce.com administrators
IT professionals
What’s involved in the Dreamforce schedule?
You can choose from 325+ sessions with 700 speakers and 30+ hands-on-labs.
Keynotes What’s next in cloud computing?
Tracks and sessions This year, you can choose from 6 role-based tracks and over 325 sessions where you’ll learn best practices and get insider tips from expert panels and case studies.
Continuing 7 Question & Answer Blog Series: When evaluating SaaS and cloud computing for your government agency …
#6. Is there a disaster recovery plan for this web-based software / SaaS?
Any vendor providing web-based, SaaS services should consider every potential disaster, and be prepared for anything. When evaluating SaaS vendors for your government agency, ask whether the provider has:
Data backup procedures
A multilevel backup strategy that includes disk-to-disk-to-tape data backup where tape backups serve as a secondary level of backup
Failover that cascades from server to server and from data center to data center in the event of a regional disaster, such as a hurricane or flood
BasicGov web-based / SaaS provider develops and hosts its software on Salesforce.com cloud platform Force.com which has world class disaster recovery plans and procedures:
The Salesforce service performs real-time replication to disk at each data center, and near real-time data replication between the production data center and the disaster recovery center
Data are transmitted across encrypted links
Disaster recovery tests verify our projected recovery times and the integrity of the customer data
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