Comment Re:Failure tolerance vs. failure prevention (Score 5, Insightful) 160
It's a lot easier and cheaper to make failure-tolerant software if you're looking at system functionality on a cluster/datacentre level than it is to ensure all your hardware is bulletproof.
Hardware will fail - it's up to the intelligence of the overlaid systems to mitigate that.
Hardware will fail - it's up to the intelligence of the overlaid systems to mitigate that.
