If Healthcare.gov were running on a true cloud, it’d be much better off
October 31, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.
A statement from Terremark, which is providing the backend service for the Healthcare.gov site, gives us a bit of insight into just one of those problems. Despite all the talk about the government adopting cloud computing, it appears that Healthcare.gov isn’t actually using the cloud. Instead, it sounds like it’s running in an old-school hosted environment.
“Since HHS asked us to provide additional compute and storage capacity, our engineers have worked 24/7 to trouble-shoot issues with the site. At the request of HHS’s deputy CIO, we are now undertaking infrastructure maintenance, which should be complete overnight. We anticipate the strengthened infrastructure will help eliminate application downtimes,” Verizon, Terremark’s owner, said in the statement it issued late on Tuesday…
One of the benefits of the public cloud is that applications can scale automatically as needed. That’s why large Internet startups prefer public clouds – they don’t have to guess how popular they’ll be. Just run the service on Amazon Web Services and scale up according to demand…
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