[119147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sun Nov 8 17:34:56 2009
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:34:22 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <200911081700290.32BF5B92.16789@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Oh, the cloud service provider won't negotiate, won't give you unlimited
> service credits, want to charge extra for that protection, don't want to
> make promises it will work, and so on :-)
>
> The same unsolved problems from the 1970's mainframe/timesharing era
> still haven't been solved with virtualization/cloud/etc.
>
I'm sorry, you must have not received the memo on how cloud computing is
the bee's knees and solves all those silly problems that only affect
non-cloud services. We'll get you a copy.
~Seth
