Interesting in that a previous discussion I had on cloud computing availability ties directly to one particular problem with it. Apparently a lightening strike knocked out Amazon’s cloud services (Elastic Compute Cloud). The system was down for about 7 hours. 7 hours? That might seem inconsequential, but to a manufacturer… can you afford to shut down access for 7 hours? Software providers? Are you OK if you lose access for 7 hours?
Cloud computing is still in its early stages (crawl before walking?). But with similar outages to google’s gmail and salesforce.com, the vulnerabilities in cloud computing should be very evident at this time. Coupled with cost of ownership issues, this is not a move anyone should make without extreme due diligence.
Filed under: Innovation, Tech | Tagged: Cloud computing
