Rackspace on Monday experienced an outage that completely shut down its hosted sites – apparently due to a problem with its Dallas datacenter.

I think you know what’s coming – The Cloud.

Yep, a “breathable”, automated Private Cloud dynamically sharing resources across multiple datacenters could significantly mitigate outages like this.

Looking at all kinds of public clouds the issue becomes critical. Current providers focus primarily on providing best prices for a specific set of Web 2.0 applications. Now, as the cloud industry is moving towards the enterprise — this sets up completely new challenges. An outage like the Rackspace one will keep another good set of enterprise customers from hopping on the cloud.

Providing another level of failover security by keeping the prices reasonable is about two things: being able to switch between different cloud infrastructures and — for the highly secured and resilient infrastructures: having another level of hard- and software resources available. That is what the standard public clouds cannot easily provide, but this is available on the sites of the known outsourcing providers. In this case customers can decide between security (SLA and resilience) and price – to find the perfect balance between these antagonistic parameters.

Our Zimory public cloud provides different levels and also connects high-standard outsourcing data centers to the cloud.

The point is – cheap infrastructure is easily broken – but there are opportunities in the Cloud.

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