Posted on 10/22/2012 1:36:49 PM PDT by Snuph
Curious why there are those with an online business, who believe that handing over their entire back office infrastructure to one company, aka "going cloud" may not be the wisest of ideas. Just ask all those websites that use Amazon's cloud service today, who suddenly went dark when the Amazon cloud crashed.
From the NYT:
Amazon’s data centers in Northern Virginia crashed Monday afternoon, taking with it a number of popular Web sites, from Someecards, the quirky e-card company, to mobile applications like Flipboard and Foursquare.
Amazon reported having problems with the data centers in Northern Virginia. Those problems appear to have had a ripple effect across the Internet with several sites hosted on Amazon’s popular EC2 cloud hosting service also reporting problems.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
yeah private datacenters NEVER have problems or go down, or cost millions to operate
Any evidence of hackers?
Bears repeating.
I think I’ll continue to back up my important stuff to my 150gb external drive for just a tad longer, thank you.
Well, that is true that they DO, but...you have control and responsibility for your own infrastructure and processes. With Google or Apple, they smile, shrug their shoulders and say "So Sorry!"
Wonder if related to godaddy?
Here’s what us old hands know, and always have known:
The cloud is for the birds.
Safe is the hardware right there, mirrored, and the door covered with a shotgun.
I have a propensity to look at a sign or billboard and initially see something written that is QUITE different from what is actually there, with sometimes puzzling and sometimes kind of funny results...:)
Ping
No one should EVER say such a thing. It's effectively saying "Here, let me surrender control of everything to somebody I don't know, in a place I can't control, to a universe that's trying to break in and steal it."
Cloud computing is an invention of IT companies trying to get people to subscribe to their 'services' and provide nothing tangible in return.
I spend half of my day re-sharpening my chisels because when I write it in Stone, I write it in Stone.
Postage is killing me
TT
Mormon hackers?
/johnny
Oh, they do, certainly. When you have direct control over your datacenter you usually put more direct resources into getting things back up and online. When you outsource mission critical components of your operation to others you may not receive that urgent and custom attention that might include immediate cutover to mirrored servers, etc.
Too many “decision makers” believe that the cloud is an entity that is better than servers. Of course, the “cloud” is nothing more than web servers; it is made up of servers, hard drives or other storage media.
Too many of these “decision makers” believe that the cloud is somehow more secure, better response to problems, customized to put their needs first when problems occur.
The cloud may be cheaper but as many are finding out; you still get what you pay for and you no longer have direct control over a key piece of your operation. You have to know and understand all of the risks as well as the benefits.
It’s no cloud, folks. It’s a big room, so called farm of servers, running most likely some flavor of UNIX and serving disk arrays. D’uh!
True. I use cloud services, but do it for fun and convenience, not for business critical types of things.
I think that would be crazy.
I thought they used to call that COBOL.
Hahahahaha!
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