"Thanks to free (but less reliable) web services, we can face a failure and move on to the next tool in our arsenal with only a few minutes of complaining. "
Spend little. Build redundancy. Shrug your shoulders. Carry on with life.
Can corporations which spend millions on high-availability SLAs and business continuity plans learn anything from this emerging wisdom of crowds?
"Thanks to free (but less reliable) web services, we can face a failure and move on to the next tool in our arsenal with only a few minutes of complaining. "
Spend little. Build redundancy. Shrug your shoulders. Carry on with life.
Can corporations which spend millions on high-availability SLAs and business continuity plans learn anything from this emerging wisdom of crowds?
Disaster Recovery 2.0?
Gmail down?
Phil Wainewright says once it is back up:
" Crisis? What crisis? I was asked (via SMS) to send one email urgently, which I did using my secondary SMTP service. "
Stacey at GigaOm
"Thanks to free (but less reliable) web services, we can face a failure and move on to the next tool in our arsenal with only a few minutes of complaining. "
Spend little. Build redundancy. Shrug your shoulders. Carry on with life.
Can corporations which spend millions on high-availability SLAs and business continuity plans learn anything from this emerging wisdom of crowds?
February 24, 2009 in Industry Commentary | Permalink