On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I have to agree with Bill. Given the proper use case, cloud (true cloud, which is not just "someone else's computer", a common misconception) can be an advantage. Moving some of our compute and storage resources to the cloud allows us more agility to react to changes and liberates our limited IT resources to engage in higher value strategic work.
I don't have a argument here, other than to say their reliability factor is a total crap When you have 1,000's of businesses that rely on commerce and this all travels thru these cloud computing providers, And the majority of commerce is done online these days Yet they are a single point of failure - when Amazon goes down because some nitwit type in the wring command line - just recently POOF went all business for every one of those companies -- in the Millions !! When I worked in engineering at Bell Labs for ATT and Lucent, You are >>>>required<<< to implement Fault tolerance mechanisms into your design down to the bare metal. This was a long die-hard tradition from the days when the majority of commerce was done over the telephone - ie.before the Internet. Availability was the competitive factor in the 5ESS and previous models, also the BWM Network Transport systems for the backbone, so it's not just a FCC requirement. Networks have no regulations for Availabilty Dan