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Why are we still having to deal with downtime?

Xbox LIVE will be unavailable for approx. 3 hrs on April 1st from 2pm PDT

Huh?  With all that virtualization, load balancing, and other service abstraction strategies we have today, why do we still have to deal with scheduled downtime?

I understand that we cannot plan on ever getting rid of an unscheduled outage because “stuff happens” but we certainly have at our fingertips methods that can avoid scheduled downtime once and for all.

I’m just bitter because it may take a bite out of my Halo3 Team Slayer.  The Master Chief would never allow for scheduled downtime!  It must be the work of the Covenant.  The fight continues…

—tk


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Blog: Patterns
Author: T.K.

Tim Keanini began his professional career as a musician, but has spent the past 20 years in electronic gaming and information technology. He has applied patterns found in music, gaming, and information technology to strategies successful in enterprise risk management. As CTO at nCircle, Tim's technical vision for the company has been shaped by his intimate understanding of both the "gaming mindset", which always takes into account an active opponent, and his respect for the ever-changing and complex nature of each customer's IT operations.


   




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