The Cloud and the Risk of Single Point of Failure
10:47 AM
We hear many discussing about the privacy concern over keeping our data with someone else's servers, with NSA peeking into our privacy, Google reading all our mails to choose the right ads (which Microsoft, the 1.6% share holder of facebook, used in their scroogled campaign) etc.. And this privacy concern is the one point where I agree 110% with Richard Stallman (Even then I keep my data in Google Drive and Dropbox :P ).
I was wondering something else, what will happen if these servers, holding our data and business, goes down or someone bombs these server farms (I know, a quite exaggerated thought, but not impossible) or some logic that runs these systems goes wrong (like in I,Robot :D ). There was a recent incident where Google servers went down for 5 minutes (killing 40% of world Internet traffic). What if such a condition lasts for a prolonged period?.
There are lots of people completely dependent on cloud services for data storage (at least Chromebook users with 16 GB SSD are left with no choice - even non professional cameras comes with more storage) and day-to-day computing. Many companies run their business through cloud services. All these people and companies living their lives through cloud services will be left in darkness if the servers powering them faces any problem.
The whole world is adapting cloud as the platform of computing, sacrificing their privacy and embracing the risk of one point of failure. Are we heading to a disaster?!.. Will there be a better choice?!!..
PS: Sorry for concentrating on Google, I am a Google fan :)
I was wondering something else, what will happen if these servers, holding our data and business, goes down or someone bombs these server farms (I know, a quite exaggerated thought, but not impossible) or some logic that runs these systems goes wrong (like in I,Robot :D ). There was a recent incident where Google servers went down for 5 minutes (killing 40% of world Internet traffic). What if such a condition lasts for a prolonged period?.
There are lots of people completely dependent on cloud services for data storage (at least Chromebook users with 16 GB SSD are left with no choice - even non professional cameras comes with more storage) and day-to-day computing. Many companies run their business through cloud services. All these people and companies living their lives through cloud services will be left in darkness if the servers powering them faces any problem.
The whole world is adapting cloud as the platform of computing, sacrificing their privacy and embracing the risk of one point of failure. Are we heading to a disaster?!.. Will there be a better choice?!!..
PS: Sorry for concentrating on Google, I am a Google fan :)
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