“Cloud” Reliability


How reliable is “The Cloud?”  This sure is (or ought to be) a serious concern for advocates of cloud computing.

c|net just posted a story about cloud-based data loss.  The first of many, to be sure.

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Posted by Atanas Entchev at 8/12/2008 3:54 PM
Categories: Technology, Online Mapping, GIS, GeoCloud, Data, news
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  • 8/12/2008 6:12 PM James Fee wrote:
    Cloud or not, you need to have a plan to handle your servers in the case of them going down. Just because your application is running in the cloud or not doesn't mean it is any more or less vulnerable to problems.

    Backups are needed, period.
  • 8/12/2008 9:16 PM Sean McGinnis wrote:
    I have to agree with James, whether it is cloud or local enterprise implementation, there has to be a plan for dealing with the 'worst case scenario'. How many times early in Enterprise GIS implementations were there stories of lost data and productivity because of a lack of back up and recovery plan.

    Wehave been testing in the cloud with cached tiles and have not lost any of the data yet.

    I think there is something to be said about people rushing to get to market because of a big client without thinking through a contingency plan.

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