Where's my 4 hour response time when the service fails? I can get a new mobo or hard drive, router or switch when I call the vendor, or I can even pre-order one and have it on the shelf if it's that critical - where's the new cloud when the current one is down?
Is there high availability between cloud vendors - or do you have some other mitigation strategy in mind? Kurt On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:32, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > "The Cloud" is already ready for production. > Hosted Data Centers, which is a concept we are all acquainted with, are not > immune to failures either. > Failures happen. Just make sure your entire mitigation plan is not "the > vendor's got it". > > > ASB (Professional Bio) > Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... > > > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Lesson: Large distributed systems management is hard. >> >> That's a really good read. >> >> I think after three or four more large scale problems like that, some >> clouds might be ready for production. >> >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 06:03, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >> > http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ >> > >> > This is a very good read... >> > >> > -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker >> > >> > Sent from my Motorola Droid >> > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > >> > --- >> > To manage subscriptions click here: >> > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> > or send an email to [email protected] >> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
