GSquared (12/13/2012)
...And, while some "cloud outages" have been well-publicized, is average downtime actually higher than in-house servers, across industries?
I wonder. I sometimes think outages are just as likely in either case, highly dependent on the staff.
I don't have any of those numbers. And any you get from "cloud computing providers" are likely to be spun in their favor, while any you get from a server hardware vendor are likely to be spun in their favor.
As are local numbers. I've seen so many admins claim much higher uptimes than were reported on servers. Inside many companies we certainly don't track this well, perhaps because the numbers might be < 99%.
It's an interesting set of questions. The more I learn, the more I know I don't know, on this kind of thing.
I feel like I know less every day.