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Friday, March 18, 2011

Another Hit for the Cloud

Looks like talk is cheap, even in the cloud. But outages are not cheap. Outages and uptime, among other things, are what the cloud was created to solve in the first place. While the illusion of the cloud sounds like an IT dream come true, the reality can be a nightmare as you can see from this posting on ReadWriteWeb regarding Reddit's outage and continuing problems with Amazon's cloud:
(The URL is misleading, it has nothing to do with ipad, someone didn't have their coffee when they wrote the name)
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/03/ipad-for-business-round-up-web.php