On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:06 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
> Another look at life with a cloud.
>
> <http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1534.html>
>
> How well can you plan for an outage / blockage?
Probably better than you can plan for an outage/blockage of your own
equipment.
Imagine if everyone generated their own electricity: every company
would have to have engineering staff on hand to monitor electric production,
maintain smooth output, handle equipment maintenance, etc. Even with all that,
failures would be a fact of life.
Now compare that to the current system for obtaining electric power:
yes, there are outages, and you do need to prepare for them, but every company
doesn't need to maintain their own electricity staff. Most of the time "it just
works", and the smart companies plan for those times when it doesn't.
Cloud computing is no different. If you expect it to never fail, you
are being as unrealistic as if you expect the hardware that you maintain on
site to never fail. But the benefits of not having to have a dedicated IT staff
just to maintain commodity hardware far outweigh any downside. Computing power
and storage will become utilities, and the way apps are written will change to
reflect that ubiquity.
-- Ed Leafe
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