[vcf-midatlantic] Great vintage computer article.

[Dan Roganti]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree with that, too. Internally, our average uptime is much better than
> most cloud providers standard offerings. Cloud provider diversity should
> beer a critical part of any cloud system architecture.
>
>
​uptime has become such an abused term
there's "uptime" and then there's ~​uptime~
If you never suffered a failure, yea of course, your uptime is good
a true measure is if you can >>recover<< from a failure to *retain* your
uptime
and not in hours or days as these cloud providers suffer, but in minutes
I even noticed that wireless providers are becoming prone to this.

But yes, trust is also a significant factor,
at work they moved our email and wiki to the cloud,
thankfully not our design and production servers