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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Nov 19, 2014 13:09:19 GMT
Microsoft Azure faults knock websites offline BBC>>>>> Faults with Microsoft's cloud computing platform have knocked many third-party sites offline, as well as disrupting the US firm's own products. Microsoft Azure's status page says problems began at 00:52 GMT across the globe. Its European operations are taking the longest to fix.>>>>>"It's really unfortunate timing for Microsoft that this has happened at a time it is pushing and marketing Azure so obviously," said Chris Green, principal technology analyst at the Davies Murphy Group. "But it is not the only cloud provider that has suffered this sort of outage. "Most of the other high-profile people, including the likes of Amazon, have had substantial outages that have taken down everything from public-sector services to major corporate operations. " A lot of these cloud services are still in their infancy, and glitches like this are going to happen."
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Post by warlock on Nov 19, 2014 13:48:20 GMT
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Nov 19, 2014 14:57:59 GMT
One of the problems with Cloud computing is a need / definite connection to the internet to connect to apps and the subsequent data storage and important updating of that data, if as a business you 'subscribe' to this model you really in the midden. Yep all data is stored locally but if the net goes down so does the sharing data protocol. So it is a complete waste of time
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Post by GuiltySpark on Nov 19, 2014 15:13:50 GMT
In my opinion its all about ease of Data Retrieval for government agencies (not that I have anything to hide, but its the principle that counts).
The only benefit I could ever see to using the cloud is for PaaS (Platform as a Service) a kind of try before you buy or better yet free for the Open Source community to test new distros, software etc before its rated good enough to be released into the Open Source community under a license (GPL, CPL, CCL) etc..
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