Last week with the death of megastar Michael Jackon, news sites and social media outlets posting the earliest reports of the death of Jackson experienced availability problems as web users around the world sought to confirm the tragic news. TMZ.com was the first site to post the news and was soon kicked off line due to the immense amount of traffic that hit the site. Twitter struggled and even turned off search features to slow the load. Many of the other large news sites were slowed as well including ABC, NBC, AOL, CBS, and Yahoo! News.
Reuven Cohen of Elastic Vapor jumped right in arguing that there is no longer a reason for sites to experience this type of slow-down with cloud computing available. One of the biggest advantages of cloud computing is capacity on demand. With capacity on demand, these sites can access almost infinite supplies of compute, leaving the end users with no experience of failure or slowdown. Cohen says, "Not having a cloud bursting strategy in the age of cloud computing isn't just wrong - its idiotic."
Cohen is obviously very blunt with his feelings, but honestly its true. These sites have no doubt experienced these huge traffic loads before so either they aren't worried about their end users or they just aren't keeping up with technology enough to make use of the cloud computing solution.
Reuven Cohen of Elastic Vapor jumped right in arguing that there is no longer a reason for sites to experience this type of slow-down with cloud computing available. One of the biggest advantages of cloud computing is capacity on demand. With capacity on demand, these sites can access almost infinite supplies of compute, leaving the end users with no experience of failure or slowdown. Cohen says, "Not having a cloud bursting strategy in the age of cloud computing isn't just wrong - its idiotic."
Cohen is obviously very blunt with his feelings, but honestly its true. These sites have no doubt experienced these huge traffic loads before so either they aren't worried about their end users or they just aren't keeping up with technology enough to make use of the cloud computing solution.
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