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Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather

Posted by samzenpus on from the stormy-weather dept.

SmartAboutThings writes "In a recent survey performed by Wakefield Research, it has been discovered that the majority of the surveyed Americans are quite confused about the notion of Cloud, when it relates to Cloud Storage/Computing. The most interesting fact is that 51% of the surveyed persons thought that stormy weather interferes with cloud computing!"

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  1. It does by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    When that stormy weather takes out power supplies to the data centres.

  2. It isn't? by Daetrin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Didn't we have a story in the last couple weeks about Amazon's cloud servers getting taken out by a large storm and the resulting power outage or something like that?

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    1. Re:It isn't? by Daetrin · · Score: 5, Informative

      Okay, found the link: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/06/30/162250/more-uptime-problems-for-amazon-cloud

      "An Amazon Web Services data center in northern Virginia lost power Friday night during an electrical storm, causing downtime for numerous customers â" including Netflix"

      So the east coast has a big storm, power goes out, and the cloud goes down, and somehow people are drawing the conclusion that stormy weather can have an adverse effect on the cloud? It's possible they're confused about how big a storm is required, the article doesn't address that point, but clearly the idea isn't crazy.

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    2. Re:It isn't? by Eponymous+Hero · · Score: 4, Informative

      they don't eat little kids.

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    3. Re:It isn't? by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 5, Informative

      Don't trust the clowd clowns with your data!

      I certainly won't. Thanks for the tip. One other thing, how do I distinguish clowd clowns from regular clowns?

      Can you really think of a situation that would require you to trust any kind of clown?

  3. Weather does affect it by Nightlight3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Recent outages of AWS and other providers demonstrate that weather does affect the "Cloud" platforms.

  4. Re:or when rain / rain water get's in the phone / by Obfuscant · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can only imagine how he thought the manufacturers got it.

    It's what's left over after they make Soylent Green. By-product.

  5. Re:or when rain / rain water get's in the phone / by roc97007 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Had I mod points, I'd mod this informative just to see people's reaction.

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