What is it with cloud computing? Engage VM, disengage brain?
June 25, 2014
Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Trevor Pott.
The implosion of source-code hosting biz Code Spaces should have rung plenty of alarm bells. A company with a loyal following and a bright-looking future suddenly disappeared, never to be seen again. What’s worse, for the past several years a significant chunk of the IT community has been warning about exactly the sorts of issues that ultimately resulted in Code Spaces’ failure. I feel sorry for the real human beings affected by this incident; jobs lost, years of work evaporated.
Unfortunately, that’s not all I feel. I also feel something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike schadenfreude. When I heard the news, the dark uncharitable part of my soul wanted to climb atop the tallest tower and bellow: "I told you so!" A release of years of pent up tension and frustration at watching company after company swallow cloud vendor marketing tripe hook, line and sinker. A lot of people told the world so. Nobody listened…
Herd immunity
Just because your workload is in the public cloud doesn’t mean you can stop worrying about it. In fact, you need to worry more. When you ran your workload on your own premises, you were part of a great big blob of stuff behind a load of IP addresses…
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