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specialist on Nov 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Smuggling USB Sticks

Mature commodity items, services tend to be well regulated. Because it's generally better for customers and therefore economic activities.

We barely have SLA standards for uptime, privacy, data breaches, etc.

It's cool to be a pioneer. But you're largely on your own. A trade off.

r00fus on Nov 12, 2012 [–]

From my experience, on-premise vs. cloud/hosted is a tradeoff between engineering talent (keeping the servers up) and SLA management (filing tickets/contacting providers when SLA is not being met or bad stuff happens).

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