Interview: Business focus on downtime and cloud computing

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Google suffered a brief outage this month, recovering relatively quickly but leaving many thinking more seriously about the wide-ranging impacts downtime can have. Jon Lucas, co-founder and director of Hyve Managed Hosting, has considered the key issues of downtime, cloud computing trends, and why his business, Hyve, has remained as one of the few private cloud computing companies.

To discover more, Digital Journal spoke with Jon Lucas, co-founder and director of Hyve Managed Hosting.

Digital Journal: Following the recent Google outage, why is it so important for cloud providers not to experience downtime and how can it be avoided? 

Jon Lucas: In today’s hyperconnected world, an…