The Dark Side of Cloud Computing
October 19, 2009 - ב' חשון תש"ע by admin
I’ve always been a big fan of the Cloud Computing concept. The advantages of agility, cost and scalability are overwhelmingly appealing to both end users and IT professionals. Amazon has been one of the leaders in translating the concept / theory into practice with their AWS service. Many of today’s successful Web 2.0 and social web sites have leveraged cloud computing to their advantage and utilize the AWS service.
However, there’s a dark side to cloud computing …
This past week customers with a Sidekick device on the T-Mobile network lost all their data when the network servers owned and managed by Microsoft went down. There’s now a class-action suit pending. Just when all seemed lost, today customers were luckily informed by Microsoft that their contacts lists could be recovered.
Google has recently had access issues for their GMail service. Today people are having issues accessing Flickr, Facebook and Twitter.
As more and more of our personal and corporate data moves out to the cloud we should all be concerned with the following:
- How secure is it?
- How accessible will it be if/when there’s a major event?
