[133187] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cloud proof of failure - was:: wikileaks unreachable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Mon Dec 6 04:50:04 2010
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: "peter@peter-dambier.de" <peter@peter-dambier.de>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:49:17 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4CFCAF05.4030709@peter-dambier.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The cloud is a failure. Too easy to get it down.
> I guess wikileaks returning to dedicated hosting proofs that.
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No, it just proves that organizational decisions are made by human beings t=
hat have values. Whether or not those values are 'right' isn't the point -=
the point is that the technology isn't what failed here.
There are plenty of dedicated server hosts that would have shut off wikilea=
ks under political pressure - and there are plenty of 'cloud' hosts who wou=
ld have kept them up. I don't think we can draw any pass/fail conclusions =
WRT cloud computing (defined here as virtualization-as-a-service) from the =
removal of Wikileaks from S3.
Nathan
