It's not the failure; it's the size of the impact
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| garymax Feb 24, 2009 11:22 PM EDT |
Quoting:All software fails from time to time and being in the cloud doesn't make it immune. That is the problem with "the cloud." If a small regional system fails, no big deal. If the cloud fails and all of your computing eggs are in the same (cloud) basket, you are 100% affected. No access to your data. Notta, zippo, zilch. Again, it isn't the fact that the system went down; it is the size of the impact that the cloud created by virtue of its own characteristics. |
| jezuch Feb 25, 2009 3:08 AM EDT |
And here I thought "the cloud" was all about redundancy... (as in "high availabiliy") |
| dinotrac Feb 25, 2009 7:14 AM EDT |
jezuch -- Ummm, well, gee, maybe not. It's really all about... Can I get back to you on that? |
| jacog Feb 25, 2009 8:39 AM EDT |
It's really all about marketing(verb) buzzwords. Buzzing like mosquitoes... and hate mosquitoes, I really do. |
| NoDough Feb 25, 2009 12:14 PM EDT |
It's really about minimizing support costs. |
| garymax Feb 25, 2009 3:32 PM EDT |
NoDough And it didn't cost Gmail users a penny in support costs when the cloud went down. It did that for free! :-) |
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