21st Century Goliath - No Match for a Glitch
Posted by Jeff Papows on Sun, Apr 24, 2011 @ 08:33 PM
While the outage at Amazon's EC2 service, a web service that provides resizable computer capacity in the cloud designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers didn't do much to help an industry that's expected to grow to $55B dollars by 2014 - it did however manage put the issue of software flaws and software glitches in this week's agenda at many companies that have relied on Amazon's stellar (until this past week) reputation. While everyone is still trying to understand what exactly happened, what we know is that many companies that rely on Cloud services were out of business and in the dark.
My bet is that more companies will now start looking at private Clouds or a hybrid model of private and public Clouds to run their business in order to prevent such a massive collapse and avert financial losses. For my two cents all the noise is in public clouds, meaning hype all the work and the bulk of the benefit is in private clouds.
My concern is that as consumers of technology we are going to fall back into the very thing that brought us to today - Complacency. Should we continue to be complacent and believe as Werner Vogel, CTO of Amazon claims that "Everything Fails All the Time"? or shall we as consumers, business leaders and business owners demand more? Amazon makes it it possible for many companies to be in business and just as quickly take a good number of them out of business, at least temporarily.
Do you think better automated governance could have prevented this massive glitch from happening? Let me know your thoughts
Jeff