{"id":4471,"date":"2012-11-05T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/nov\/05\/how-did-the-cloud-prevent-sandy-from-getting-worse\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:30:00","slug":"how-did-the-cloud-prevent-sandy-from-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-did-the-cloud-prevent-sandy-from-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"How did the cloud prevent #Sandy from getting worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> As the hurricane raged over the US East Coast this week the world shivered at the thought of a possible disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy, the Frankenstorm, slowly withdrew leaving irreparable damage and chaos behind.<\/p>\n<p>The citizens of the areas affected will definitely need considerable time (and money) to take everything back as it once was. However, in some aspects it could have been worse.<\/p>\n<p>As Sandy came closer it cut the power supplies and caused a collapse of communication channels. Major datacentres located in the East Coast suffered considerable impacts and many web services were taken down.<\/p>\n<p>This is why many wondered what would have happened if there wasn&rsquo;t the cloud &ndash; this is the place where so much important data is, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud providers scatter user data across different datacentres and this is often considered to be a great disaster plan. Sandy was in a way a final test for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> As the hurricane raged over the US East Coast this week the world shivered at the thought of a possible disaster.<br \/>\nSandy, the Frankenstorm, slowly withdrew leaving irreparable damage and chaos behind.<br \/>\nThe citizens of the areas affected will definitely &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}