Lightning from a cloud takes down the cloud

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higherho

no Redundant clouds?! 0_0

SteveLord

But..........it's THE CLOUD!!!! How could something so tragic happen to something so fresh and trendy!!!?!?!?

Michael.J.Palmer

higherho wrote: »

no Redundant clouds?! 0_0

I've had this same question ring in my head before as well. From what I can best figure, most cloud set-ups don't have redundancy, or if they do, they tend to go offline completely if the entire cloud goes offline.

The software company I work for has started using some cloud technology for their client's to have a central database for particular information. One day about a month ago that cloud server went down and affected 100% of our clients on a particular version (literally hundreds). It shocked me that we didn't have a redundancy back up in place for such an occasion considering that a cloud server used in such fashion basically becomes a single point of failure anyways for all clients who require that database.

tpatt100

Zeus thinks the Cloud is an abomination

jibbajabba

Crazy, considering that according to the System Center, it is THAT easy