Nine Common Reasons Cloud Systems Crash

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Chris Preimesberger.

It’s not discussed and written about as much as it probably should be, but cloud applications crash at least as often as their on-premise counterparts. It’s simply a fact of IT life: Any application running anywhere—whether on a physical server or in a virtual machine halfway across the world—can crash at any time.

While minimizing downtime remains a key IT challenge, cloud computing disasters require a slightly different approach. Increased flexibility does mean that IT administrators have to give up a degree of control. When disaster does strike, there’s no physical data center you can visit to investigate the problem—or at least it’s usually not close enough to access quickly…


Those who prepare accordingly will find that cloud applications generally perform remarkably well. This slide show, developed using eWEEK reporting and industry information from Ofer Gadish, CEO of CloudEndure, examines nine key reasons the best cloud applications crash—and offers suggestions about what you can do about them…

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