from Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog
Amazon now have a 99.9% guarantee for it’s S3 online storage service. However, there is already competition – Nirvanax, an online storage utility now in public beta, claims a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and another new utility startup, Flexiscale, is already promoting a 99.95% uptime guarantee.
Tweet ThisThis is a great – and early – example of one of the key advantages that computing utilities have over in-house computing operations: the utilities will compete directly with one another on critical performance standards, like reliability and security, as well as pricing. That competition promises to rapidly drive up standards and push down prices, to the benefit of the utilities’ customers.