How bandwidth and reliability have an impact on cloud computing? [closed]

Question

Bandwidth - with bandwidth increasing all the time this means that more users can access applications on a cloud at the same time with less latency. An example of this is when lots of users are trying to access a cloud application for example a website it is possible for the user now to be directed via different routes to the required server.

Reliability - server issues can mean that users are unaware if the service they are using has completed at the time the server fails. An example of this would be when using google docs and the server fails, the user is unaware at the time if the work they have done on a document they have uploaded has been saved and there is the chance a server could fail when the user needs to access a document on google docs immediately.

Is this correct or am i looking at it wrong.

Answer 1

Bandwidth - The bandwidth at both sides of the connection is important. The client side also needs a good and stable connection and if possible redundancy.

Reliability - In your example you talk about Google Docs and saving a document (text or otherwise). In this example the way that it works is that the document autosaves every so often and it will notify the user if there is an error. The application then has an ability to save the file down locally. If you use a Chrome Book, you have even more options as the apps can be used in Offline Mode and then upload changes later when a connection is restored.