[JBR34]

As predicted in the Movie “Terminator” SKYNET took control of the computers.

[dfwgator]

The “cloud” has its place, but I would never ever rely on it for mission-critical services.

[The Sons of Liberty]

I guess Amazon and Sony can commiserate with each other about down systems. Cloud computing sounds good, but I suspect the marketing department came up with it. I can’t believe an IT person would’ve come up with it.

[proxy_user]

They probably had architectural software bugs. Replicating data across data centers is a poor strategy if data corruption is also replicated.

[kevkrom]

I don’t know exactly what happened behind the scenes, but someone needs to have “I failed Distributed Systems 101” branded on their forehead for this one.

[commish]

Any Company that did not have their data backed up or mirrored in some way gets no sympathy from me. Never put all your eggs in one basket, and never trust another to protect your data.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

ping

[ShadowAce]

[Jeff Winston]

THIS is what I have against “cloud computing.”

[GOPJ]

In addition to taking down the sites of dozens of high-profile companies for hours (and, in some cases, days), Amazon's huge EC2 cloud services crash permanently destroyed some data. The data loss was apparently small relative to the total data stored, but anyone who runs a web site can immediately understand how terrifying a prospect any data loss is.

Whatever happened to the idea of backups in safe sites?

[antiRepublicrat]

If I were a corporation doing cloud, I would demand a serious service level agreement, including payback for downtime and reparations for lost data. If the data is critical, I’d demand no less than one geographically separate warm site, and if the data is critical enough a hot site plus a warm site. The company had better have one hell of an insurance policy.