In the past two weeks, two persons separately came to me asking me about taking their businesses to the cloud. And my first answer was "How has your system performed outside the cloud?".
There are indeed many reasons to cloud but one good reason not to cloud is trying to do it because the topic seems to be a big buzz on the internet.
It is quite a sad new but the recent failure of the Elastic Block Store (EBS) will again throw more questions on exactly how are we supposed to go about "cloud"ing our businesses.
Considering a situation where a client doing a non-internet business is having her entire system in the cloud. The advantages of such are well numbered but downtimes like this could really suck. Therefore, I will advise company who must go cloud (because of the well numbered advantages) never to put their life entirely in the cloud but keep a copy in their hands as well. This would mean local copies. But can we have local copies of cloud services?
This in itself brings up the issue of service and data synchronization. And of course, unless we have to completely take faith in our cloud company, is another big science which we will all one day need to answer.
Happy Easter.
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