Year 2012 has ended just recently. What a year it was for
Cloud Technologies? Not the best one out there. Lots of cloud consumers lost
money, time and serenity in different situations, caused by cloud providers. As
a result, clouds had a negative influence on their reputation.
I think that it is too early to say that Cloud is a reliable
and smart source to store your data. At least, as is. Continued outages have
contributed to the feeling that businesses shouldn't put their core assets in a
public cloud, and as a result, cloud vendors in 2012 ramped up sales of hybrid
cloud services, enabling companies to manage their own private clouds.
Outages
hit cloud hosting companies with regularity, creating a sense that they are no
longer extraordinary events, but rather a normal part of the cloud computing
business model.
Let us look at 10 top cloud failures in 2012.