Thousands of sites, including the famous Reddit.com social news portal, malfunctioning for two days because of problems with the Amazon servers in Washington (USA). In these circumstances, users and companies are wondering how safe is "cloud computing."
Thousands of sites, including the famous Reddit.com social news portal, malfunctioning of two days because of problems with the Amazon servers in Washington (USA) Daily Mail. In these circumstances, users and companies are wondering how safe is "cloud computing" software.
The concept of "cloud computing" means storing files (music, photos, video, documents) or entire sites to a company's servers instead of PCs. In theory, save documents on these servers is much safer (and certainly much cheaper), but the latest events related to the Amazon denies this.
On Thursday, a "major accident" on Amazon's servers in Washington - one of the first companies worldwide to have a cloud computing system - the operation has stopped thousands of sites. Saturday, nearly 48 hours after "unprecedented failure, some Web pages still not working as it should, while technicians worked around the clock to repair them.
"I was lured into a false sense of security. This is a wake-up call"
"We seek a feeling of vulnerability. The accident is a clear message that we must rethink our strategy," said Josh Cochrane, vice president of a business partner with Amazon, whose site is down for almost two days.
Another director who keeps the company on the Amazon site said it has problems with this company since December and is seriously considering changing supplier. "The interruption came to the attention of the press because they have been affected major sites, but we see problems throughout the year," says Michael Hussey.
"Everything seemed so well developed at Amazon that I was lured into a false sense of security. So far, we got good quality services. It is certainly a wake-up call," said another injured.
The conclusion was drawn by another director of issues affecting the Amazon. "The cloud computing is ready to serve businesses. Even the gems you leave the company on hand providers of these services?" Jimmy Tam questioned rhetorically.
The Director is, however, contradicted by a study of firm Gartner, which says cloud computing services market will grow from 47 billion (in 2010) to 70 billion euro (2012).
How safe is the cloud computing
But problems that make many passes Amazon to wonder how safe it is, in fact this system. Ironically, just hours before Amazon's servers to fall, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer held a press conference to brag about cloud computing. Also on Friday came news that Apple has completed work on his own variant of collecting data storage.
In theory, Amazon's servers are divided into "regions", composed in turn of several "zones", each ready to take data from computers cease to function. However, "unknown reasons" hardware problems have affected several "zones" and caused "catastrophic consequences" for anyone using servers in Washington, writes Daily Mail.
Besides the obvious technical problems, Amazon has been criticized because it failed to manage the situation. The first message of the company came to ten hours after the incident: "Some people have asked us when we come back completely, and our specialists estimate that within a few hours. However, we ensure that everyone is working to remedy the fault as soon as possible" .
Before the incident, Amazon boasted that its giant servers are impossible to "reach" and that a company has tried this, in December 2010 but failed. However, Thursday's failure could undermine customer confidence in cloud computing, which is considered very safe so far.
"Amazon has worked hard to convince us that their services are strong, and the incident does not help, is a big punch that the company receives," said Jason Glassberg, an expert in online security.
" Gandul "-source:romanian newspaper
Thousands of sites, including the famous Reddit.com social news portal, malfunctioning of two days because of problems with the Amazon servers in Washington (USA) Daily Mail. In these circumstances, users and companies are wondering how safe is "cloud computing" software.
The concept of "cloud computing" means storing files (music, photos, video, documents) or entire sites to a company's servers instead of PCs. In theory, save documents on these servers is much safer (and certainly much cheaper), but the latest events related to the Amazon denies this.
On Thursday, a "major accident" on Amazon's servers in Washington - one of the first companies worldwide to have a cloud computing system - the operation has stopped thousands of sites. Saturday, nearly 48 hours after "unprecedented failure, some Web pages still not working as it should, while technicians worked around the clock to repair them.
"I was lured into a false sense of security. This is a wake-up call"
"We seek a feeling of vulnerability. The accident is a clear message that we must rethink our strategy," said Josh Cochrane, vice president of a business partner with Amazon, whose site is down for almost two days.
Another director who keeps the company on the Amazon site said it has problems with this company since December and is seriously considering changing supplier. "The interruption came to the attention of the press because they have been affected major sites, but we see problems throughout the year," says Michael Hussey.
"Everything seemed so well developed at Amazon that I was lured into a false sense of security. So far, we got good quality services. It is certainly a wake-up call," said another injured.
The conclusion was drawn by another director of issues affecting the Amazon. "The cloud computing is ready to serve businesses. Even the gems you leave the company on hand providers of these services?" Jimmy Tam questioned rhetorically.
The Director is, however, contradicted by a study of firm Gartner, which says cloud computing services market will grow from 47 billion (in 2010) to 70 billion euro (2012).
How safe is the cloud computing
But problems that make many passes Amazon to wonder how safe it is, in fact this system. Ironically, just hours before Amazon's servers to fall, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer held a press conference to brag about cloud computing. Also on Friday came news that Apple has completed work on his own variant of collecting data storage.
In theory, Amazon's servers are divided into "regions", composed in turn of several "zones", each ready to take data from computers cease to function. However, "unknown reasons" hardware problems have affected several "zones" and caused "catastrophic consequences" for anyone using servers in Washington, writes Daily Mail.
Besides the obvious technical problems, Amazon has been criticized because it failed to manage the situation. The first message of the company came to ten hours after the incident: "Some people have asked us when we come back completely, and our specialists estimate that within a few hours. However, we ensure that everyone is working to remedy the fault as soon as possible" .
Before the incident, Amazon boasted that its giant servers are impossible to "reach" and that a company has tried this, in December 2010 but failed. However, Thursday's failure could undermine customer confidence in cloud computing, which is considered very safe so far.
"Amazon has worked hard to convince us that their services are strong, and the incident does not help, is a big punch that the company receives," said Jason Glassberg, an expert in online security.
" Gandul "-source:romanian newspaper
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