Wed, 07 Jan 2009

Salesforce.com outage exposes cloud's dark linings

Why do we insist on constantly attempting to get back to some analog of the days when computers were kept in huge rooms tended by IT priests and were accessed using dumb terminals? That's all "cloud computing" really is: a return to the "mainframe" - without the Big Iron. And it will inevitably suffer from all the problems that made personal computing so attractive in the first place!

Exposing the dark side of cloud computing, Salesforce.com suffered an outage that locked more than 900,000 subscribers out of crucial applications and data needed to transact business with customers.

(link) [The Register]

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