Comment Re:Seems like anything takes down the cloud... (Score 1) 183
Hmm no you don't usually have much control over the recovery either. I was involved in a outage once because some guys trenching cable cut clean through our fiber bundle. There is no controlling anything that happens after that you are just down until the fiber is repaired.
Diverse utility paths are pretty much required for any datacenter. And even that may not be enough, which I will respond to in the next point.
In a cloud environment, given that you have a DR plan you press a button and you are back online.
Two things: that whole concept is not a "cloud environment" thing, it's the way things have been done for a long time. Also, if you have to "press a button" (or perform any action) you are doing it pretty much wrong and have nothing to be smug about.
None of this is magic, not unique to "cloud computing". Stop letting your brain fall out of your ear when you hear the latest buzz words. "Cloud computing" is code for "we figured out how to lease you a fractional part of several servers and call it something else". The only part about it that is new is the marketing. It's carries all the same risks as it did before, but now has some more tools, platform support and vendors due to its trendiness and the increased needs for the types of service in the general market area it covers.
No, I'm not working my first or second job in the industry. That's why I know "THE CLOUD! THE CLOUD!" is not the answer to all problems. It's just another tool that can be used appropriately or inappropriately. Much of what I've seen lately has been inappropriate, but wholly in keeping with what the marcom firms the providers have hired are messaging. Sounds like you've bought into that too. I'd suggest you get some perspective on the industry you are presumably a part of.