"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 <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... * On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> 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 <asbz...@gmail.com> 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > > 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin