[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Picture this: two low-cost SDSL or broadband wireless connects to different providers in every location. Use Cisco HSRP to auto-failover between providers. Use IPSec tunnels to mesh tunnels fully between all offices.

I know nothing about that stuff!

But I can see you have an exciting life!

[Ramius]

hehehe... roger that.

It's like this: We're trying to move beyond traditional "disaster recovery" and into "failure resiliency". I want a network that can take hits, even serious hits, and nobody knows it even happened.

The big thing now for me is "virtualization" of storage. Everybody touches the same data all over the net, but the data isn't necessarily where they think it is. Nothing should ever exist in only one place, but must be everywhere. That way, whatever is still standing looks like all the other places too.

It's big, big fun. I love this stuff.