Uptime: Serious Business Indeed!

Link: RackSpace Outage Hits Home � GigaOM. No need to pile on here, but clearly this is an issue that is going to become and more and more important going forward. It is not clear whether this could have happened on Amazon's or Google's grid, but you can bet that the "big boys" are the only ones that will be left standing when all of this plays out in the next few years.

Reliability, availability and scalability are not just buzzwords...this was/is one of the reasons that mainframes remained strategic computing platforms (for some businesses) long after they were considered dead. We are not headed back to mainframes, but we do want the uptime that they represented and an order of magnitude more. Welcome to the new IT. Google is IBM. Amazon and others want a piece of the new monopoly.

The more things change...