Tuesday 26 April 2011

Mitigating the Risk of Cloud Services Failure: How to Avoid Getting Amazon-ed

The two-day outage at one of Amazon's data centers has everyone questioning the reliability of infrastructure as a service offerings. Here are seven tips for limiting your risk in the event of cloud services failure.

One of CIOs' biggest concerns about the infrastructure-as-a-service model has been the loss of control over assets and management that enterprises might experience upon moving into a multi-tenant environment. While analysts and early adopters of infrastructure-as-a-service offerings have argued that such apprehension is rooted more in fear than fact, Amazon's recent public data center debacle has given everyone good reason to question the reliability of the public cloud.

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Mitigating the Risk of Cloud Services Failure: How to Avoid Getting Amazon-ed