Data Storage Issues: Cloud Computing Fails Again

Grazed from InfoStor.  Author: Henry Newman.

Today I woke up to find that Microsoft’s 365 has some issues for users worldwide, but not me as I’m not using 365.  It seems like it’s case of “another day, another high reliability cloud down.”  Clearly, vendors either have very poor test procedures and plans or they do not have an adequate test environment.  This is not a surprise to me, given the size of installations, the complexity of the configuration and the cost of maintain a test environment. 

This might be a reason to not go to the cloud.  I have not seen that testing procedures and infrastructure listed as a reason to not deploy to the cloud, but the more I think about it, it makes sense to me that it should be a factor.  So what do Microsoft, Google, Amazon and the other providers have for systems, configuration and workload generation that will give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about the cloud?…


What will they do in the future (because we all know that in the past all of them have gone down) to provide a robust test environment that will thoroughly test each of the providers cloud implementations?…

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