I did hear that Huffington Post and a few other sites went down, but to the extent my own Internet has been working, I've been finding the sites I use up and functioning. NYC.gov kept going down during Irene, so they seem to have improved their service.
Excellent point, Karyl. This merits further consideration. I think we'll find that most cloud providers were about as ready as we thought they were -- that is, fair to middling.
Mary, It would be great to do a followup now that the storm is over to see how third party and internal cloud systems performed in face of the power outages with the storm. We heard that one web hosting company in NYC went down, taking some prominent news and tech blogs offline. How about some more mission critical operations? How did they do? The whole promise of cloud computing is to route around problems and deliver the level of service needed.
I'm hearing that cloud providers and service providers in general haven't done so well, Paul. That said, we already see outages for AWS and others without bad weather, so no surprise there.
I believe we have a way to go before great cloud reliability is achieved. Prove me wrong!
It will be interesting to see how contingency plans may be altered after this episode of unpredictible weather. How much fuel and other questions may never be answered well enough to cover every emergency situation but it surely is getting adrenaline pumping for lots of folks tasked with keeping everything running smoothly.
I've been getting messages from various cloud providers all day. Some were not able to move operations out of the northeast before the power loss and others were experiencing down time. The Internet of Things will be throughly tested by this disaster.
"All this sounds great. Still, one wonders whether 2.5 days of generator power can carry Rackspace, given the week- to 10-day estimates being bandied about by municipalities in the storm's path."
Well one can forgive Rackspace and the others in extreme weather situations like Hurricane Sandy. Technically, 2.5 days of generator power is not a bad thing after all.
What are your expectations for these cloud providers in extreme weather situations like theones we are experiencing?
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