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Let's Not Trash Cloud Computing Over Gmail Outage
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Comments (6)
And here I thought "the cloud" was all about redundancy... (as in "high availabiliy")
jezuch --
Ummm, well, gee, maybe not.
It's really all about...
Can I get back to you on that?
Ummm, well, gee, maybe not.
It's really all about...
Can I get back to you on that?
It's really all about marketing(verb) buzzwords. Buzzing like mosquitoes... and hate mosquitoes, I really do.
It's really about minimizing support costs.
NoDough
And it didn't cost Gmail users a penny in support costs when the cloud went down. It did that for free! :-)
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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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.