![]() ![]() It's imperative that cloud vendors understand those topics from day one. They need to have a handle on round-robin patching, fluid virtual machines, performance metrics, event-log monitoring, alerting, and every other aspect of systems management that most companies hope to optimize one day. They require redundant Internet access, power supplies, air-handling systems, and so on. If a server goes down, they must have a hundred like it ready to take over in an instant. ![]() Heck, how many of people reading this article have perfect backups of our own data? Be honest.īecause cloud vendors are charged with supporting large amounts of data and multiple customers, by their very nature, they have to have their data protection policies and procedures down to a science. How many companies have you worked at that thought they were getting good data backups - but weren't? How many companies have lost data, then had a hard time recovering it, only to mess up a second time with seemingly no lesson learned? Yes, I know that there are hundreds of thousands times more noncloud systems (or whatever the ratio is), but think about how many people you know who have lost everything on their computers because they didn't have a recent backup. For every big news story making the headlines about cloud data availability issues, I bet there are thousands more incidents of data loss on noncloud systems. ![]()
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