Distributed cloud can protect you from a wide range of risks, but it’s not a magical cure for all digital ills. In recent weeks, many managers will have been searching for measures that might have protected them from the global CrowdStrike meltdown in July – but the truth is, a distributed cloud arrangement probably wouldn’t have helped. That’s because the distributed model relies on many VMs all running the same software in tight synchrony, so if a core component goes bad in one instance, it ought to go bad right across the deployment.
This in fact points to a subtle challenge of distributed cloud: while running multiple virtual servers in multiple places can lend you resilience, it also creates opportunities for problems to spread far and wide. The damage from CrowdStrike…
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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024