Comments on: Cloud applications need (business continuity) love too http://johngannonblog.com/2009/02/21/cloud-applications-need-business-continuity-love-too/ Cloud computing, entrepreneurship, and venture capital Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alan Wilensky http://johngannonblog.com/2009/02/21/cloud-applications-need-business-continuity-love-too/#comment-332 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:16:20 +0000 http://johngannonblog.com/?p=320#comment-332 I worked as an analyst researching the business models for insuring continuity of operations that rely on cloud or SAAS services. I also worked on the offsetting technical proposals that would mitigate against the most common types of outages risk.

Although the research was cut short (economic downturn blah), the very earliest indicators pointed to the fact that a great many SAAS, PAAS, and early entrant cloud hosts are just not insurable; that is, not without some form of mass reinsurance underwriting that includes 3rd party standards, certification, audits, and the previously mentioned technical solutions that would somehow allow competitors to backstop each other in a way that does not threaten competition.

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