A Tale of Multiple Clouds…

By Marc Handelman on May 15th, 2009

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Another indication of the statistically significant lack of reliability inherent within cloud architectures (or that little trailer behind the Googleplex on Amphitheater, for that matter): Witness yesterdays’ Google Inc. (NasddaqGS: GOOG) traffic snafu, noted in the short article snippet, post jump.

From Ian Paul’s superb post at PCWORLD: “Google Outage Lesson: Don’t Get Stuck in a Cloud“

Google has apologized for yesterday’s service outage that left 14 percent of its user base without Google’s wide variety of online services for a few hours. Google said in a blog post the outage came down to a simple traffic jam at an Asian data center. The search giant described the situation by using the analogy of a large number of airplanes being rerouted through one airport that was not equipped for a massive influx of traffic. But in Google’s case, it wasn’t airplanes looking for a place to land; it was cloud-based data trying to stay up in the sky.