Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Monitoring Patients in the "Cloud" Is for the Birds

... because when a "cloud-based" system like Amazon's goes down, patients lives are at risk and your company is at the mercy of ...

... gee, I'm not sure.

-Wes

Update: The thread linked could be a hoax (see last comment) but Amazon's "cloud" outage was not.

1 comment:

Dennis said...

I once read a Sci-fi story when I was a young lad. Governments in their wisdom stored all the knowledge of the world in massive main frames located on the moon for safety and security. People had devices similar to today's Ipads that could access instantly all that knowledge via satellite relay... history, science, medicine and so on. One day we went to war and of course all the satellite communications were the first to go. We were thirty days away from the stone age...