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It's not the failure; it's the size of the impact

Story: Let's Not Trash Cloud Computing Over Gmail OutageTotal Replies: 5
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garymax

Feb 24, 2009
10:22 PM EST
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
2:08 AM EST 		And here I thought "the cloud" was all about redundancy... (as in "high availabiliy")
dinotrac

Feb 25, 2009
6:14 AM EST 		jezuch --

Ummm, well, gee, maybe not.

It's really all about...

Can I get back to you on that?
jacog

Feb 25, 2009
7:39 AM EST 		It's really all about marketing(verb) buzzwords. Buzzing like mosquitoes... and hate mosquitoes, I really do.
NoDough

Feb 25, 2009
11:14 AM EST 		It's really about minimizing support costs.
garymax

Feb 25, 2009
2:32 PM EST 		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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