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Interop: The Dark Side of the Cloud, security and lock-in

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 20, 2009

“Randy Rowland, General Manager, Managed Hosting & Cloud
Computing Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc told the audience that
just because an application is in the cloud doesn’t mean that it is
disaster tolerant. If a cloud deployment is made up of multiple
virtual machines and the host box goes down and there is not
backup, the service will be unavailable.”


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