Cloud Outages: Power Loss Blamed as Main Cause
March 8, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Cloud outages are never going to go away. The minute the IT downtime problem is solved, we’ll all have to find something else to complain about, after all. But still, unexpected cloud downtime remains one of the larger pain points skeptics point to when they get their hackles up regarding cloud computing. These same people seem to forget about the amount of downtime they experience within the four walls of their organizations—but there are IT people to blame at that point. The faceless cloud is something else. Still, cloud services fared well last year, according to research from RightScale, which recently released an infographic with all kinds of data points regarding cloud outages in 2012.
RightScale found that there were 27 notable publicly-reported cloud outages around the world. We reported on many of these outages on Talkin’ Cloud. Six of them were actually caused by Hurricane Sandy. However, when we’re talking about these outages, we’re included hosting providers, as well. Based on the RightScale information, 26 percent of outages in 2012 were private data centers, another 26 percent were public clouds, 7 percent were SaaS offerings, and 41 percent were hosting providers…
The average time to recover? A whopping 7.5 hours. Depending on what went down and how your or your customers’ businesses were affected, that’s either a minor inconvenience or a serious loss of revenue. As more business-critical applications move to cloud and hosted models, there is a need to keep things up and running as best as possible. Frequently, public cloud providers take the largest share of blame, but clearly they’re no more likely to cause outage issues than private data centers. And keep in mind these are publicly announced (or discovered) outages—information the average private business isn’t about to divulge to the world…
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