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About this : WSJ's blog reports on the down side of cloud computing.

Eric Krapf

February 19, 2008

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About this: WSJ's blog reports on the down side of cloud computing.

About this: WSJ's blog reports on the down side of cloud computing.There are good comments, too, of which I think this person's was the best:

The real question is if you hosted your own site, how often would it crash? My guess is that would be alot more often than if you had Amazon host.

If you're an SMB, which is who this Amazon service is targeted at, the commenter is right. If you're an enterprise...well, that's your job, as IT, is to be better than the Internet and than a hosting provider. Which is why I say this "Big Switch" idea is a Big Oversimplification.

This is obviously a different uptime issue than my previous post; the customer-facing part of Internet-based businesses have to be open 24/7.

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Eric Krapf

Eric Krapf is General Manager and Program Co-Chair for Enterprise Connect, the leading conference/exhibition and online events brand in the enterprise communications industry. He has been Enterprise Connect.s Program Co-Chair for over a decade. He is also publisher of No Jitter, the Enterprise Connect community.s daily news and analysis website.
 

Eric served as editor of No Jitter from its founding in 2007 until taking over as publisher in 2015. From 1996 to 2004, Eric was managing editor of Business Communications Review (BCR) magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry.
 

Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.