Glen Kemp (@ssl_boy) had a great post on Packet Pushers on 2e2 situation. I decided to comment on the subject here in my own blog.
Public clouds are popular trend nowadays and author suggests they may be going to fall into oblivion like mighty zepellins. I don't think this is the case.
Disclaimer: I'm not connected to 2e2, I'm not even located in UK, and my opinion is based on facts/rumors read on the Internet as well as my personal experience as a networks administrator.
Let's start with a brief description of the situation:
2e2 was rather big player on hosting/cloud services field in UK. However something went wrong and they has entered administration. As a result many businesses are currently on fire, because customers offloaded their IT to the cloud and now that cloud is going to dissipate with all data blown in the wind. Please read the original post and you may also like to read this link.
But does this situation maters for the whole cloudy industry? I don't think so and this why.
Simple analogy comes to mind: fire. Is it bad or good? Shall it be forgotten by our ancestors after very first burn? or after first house/village/town turned to ashes?
We are used to offload many things, like servicing our cars, cleaning our houses, hosting our web servers.
Yes, we are not hosting our web servers at homes for decades now and how fast can we restore our resource in case of problems with the hosting provider?
I bet if you are smart enough than changes in DNS zone can take longer. Really if you have backup (most likely at home or in other data center) you can restore service quite fast (in a day at longest I suppose). This will be a bad day for you, but even Amazon is not prone to this kind of days.
This is no different for cloud services. Sure it also depends on many things like complexity of the solution, competency of IT staff, availability and size of backups and so on, but all these questions CxOs should have been answered long before moving business to the clouds.
So please don't be afraid of zeppelins, just buy a parachute before you step on board.
Public clouds are popular trend nowadays and author suggests they may be going to fall into oblivion like mighty zepellins. I don't think this is the case.
Disclaimer: I'm not connected to 2e2, I'm not even located in UK, and my opinion is based on facts/rumors read on the Internet as well as my personal experience as a networks administrator.
Let's start with a brief description of the situation:
2e2 was rather big player on hosting/cloud services field in UK. However something went wrong and they has entered administration. As a result many businesses are currently on fire, because customers offloaded their IT to the cloud and now that cloud is going to dissipate with all data blown in the wind. Please read the original post and you may also like to read this link.
But does this situation maters for the whole cloudy industry? I don't think so and this why.
Simple analogy comes to mind: fire. Is it bad or good? Shall it be forgotten by our ancestors after very first burn? or after first house/village/town turned to ashes?
We are used to offload many things, like servicing our cars, cleaning our houses, hosting our web servers.
Yes, we are not hosting our web servers at homes for decades now and how fast can we restore our resource in case of problems with the hosting provider?
I bet if you are smart enough than changes in DNS zone can take longer. Really if you have backup (most likely at home or in other data center) you can restore service quite fast (in a day at longest I suppose). This will be a bad day for you, but even Amazon is not prone to this kind of days.
This is no different for cloud services. Sure it also depends on many things like complexity of the solution, competency of IT staff, availability and size of backups and so on, but all these questions CxOs should have been answered long before moving business to the clouds.
So please don't be afraid of zeppelins, just buy a parachute before you step on board.