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Server outage exposes flaws in 'cloud computing' | | 2008/09/25 | | Flaws have been exposed in one of the newest ways for online business to store and access data, it has emerged.
'Cloud computing' is a service offered by organisations such as Amazon that allows other web-based firms to access its data via mass storage on a remote server.
But the experiences of one niche internet firm show that the new technology still needs some work, the Guardian reports.
Image assessment firm FaceStat found that its data, stored on Amazon's cloud computing service S3, went down for up to seven hours this July.
The benefit of these services is that it can be simply purchased and managed, with the added bonus of the reliability and trustworthiness that firms associate with big brand names. "But that now seems wrong," say the firm.
FaceStat's website described Amazon's S3 service as its "#1 cause of failure" in terms of downtime of its service.
A recent Pew Internet report stated that some 69 per cent of users in the US have some kind of online storage in the form of webmail or software "whose functionality is located on the web," it says.
This strengthens the case for internet firms to use effective website monitoring software in response to these outages and losses of service. |
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