Saturday, June 18, 2011

Flying in the cloud

We have just witnessed yet another failure of cloud computing. United Airlines had a computer system failure last night and as a result their entire system was shut down. Because of their total dependence on computer systems they were unable to fly their airplanes. Passengers were stuck in airports overnight and it may be many days before they can fly to their destinations.

It is very obvious to us that cloud computing is a long, long way from being a totally reliable way to do business.

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