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Amazons Cloud Burst and What it Means to Microsoft Posted: 23 Apr 2011 04:09 PM PDT As Amazon’s Cloud problems became widely known, one important piece of information came out. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. A cliche for sure, but the Cloud is where major IT companies have been sporting their marketing. It’s the next thing after the Internet, it’s mature, it’s steady, it will help you make money. Those concepts will have to take a back seat as IT managers look again to see what the Cloud really means to their services. Amazon’s Predicament What happened was that Amazon’s North Virginia data center went down. And what went down specifically, it was the Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Relational Database Service (RDS) that weren’t operational. Also, reports are coming that Amazon did a poor job communicating with it clients about the nature of the problem. There were too many unanswered questions, for too long. However, while that much is true, every IT manager knows that a backup plan should be in place in case of failure, whether the hard drive on the domain controller goes down, or the Mail Exchange server goes on the fritz, or the data center on the Cloud  goes on vacation. This will put a question mark on the notion of serviceability.  Clearly, the top ranked data center on the Cloud that  the company is using will not be enough, a backup data center must be available and a switch over has to take place within 30 minutes. Otherwise the “Cloud” is nothing but a thunderstorm. Not pretty. Microsoft’s Take Microsoft may have it up on Amazon because their Azure Cloud service has multiple data centers. Microsoft DataCenters Microsoft's plan is to pair up datacenters for each geographic region, with one datacenter being designated as primary and the other, secondary, for disaster-recovery purposes. Microsoft was evaluating whether to put a primary datacenter in Brazil for the South American market, backed up by a North American datacenter. Summary Cloud operations will continue to grow and as I wrote in a previous post[Microsoft – The Cloud – and High Expectations] the amount should hit about $241 Billion by 2020. But Cloud services still need to have some solid systems control to assuage managers that their trust in the service is not a faulty one. Source ZDNet Related posts: Microsoft – The Cloud – and High Expectations Microsoft Azure – The Cloud Development and Operations Survey shows that 39% SMB Will Move to the Cloud Microsoft to Launch Windows Azure Cloud Computing Service With Windows 7 Microsoft SQL Azure – A Database for the Cloud

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