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They are two of the biggest names in technology and each is grappling with a huge and highly embarrassing debacle. On April 26th
They are two of the biggest names in technology and each is grappling with a huge and highly embarrassing debacle. On April 26th
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2022-04-20
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They are two of the biggest names in technology and each is grappling with a huge and highly embarrassing debacle. On April 26th Amazon’s finance chief, Thomas Szkutak, said the firm was still trying to get to the bottom of a
glitch
that caused numerous websites it hosts for other businesses to crash or run painfully slowly during the previous week. The same day, Sony of Japan revealed that names, addresses, passwords and possibly credit-card details of 77m accounts were stolen when hackers gained access to the network it runs in 60 countries for its PlayStation online-gaming system, as well as for Qriocity, a service offering music, films and television shows.
The two cases are different, but each has, in its own way, revived worries about the safety of storing and processing data over the internet—worries that have largely faded since the web’s early days, as countless individuals and companies have come to find that the benefits of doing things online greatly outweigh the risks. The two crises have also raised questions about the speed and quality of information provided by tech companies when confronted with system failures.
Details of what happened at Amazon Web Services, which offers computing services and data storage over the internet "cloud", were still emerging as we went to press. But it seems that a serious problem in a data centre in northern Virginia triggered an outage that affected some of the firms using that center’s infrastructure, including Foursquare, a social-media company, and a number of other prominent start-ups. Some data seem to have been lost permanently. Amazon irritated its corporate customers with the vagueness of its early updates. Keith Smith, the boss of BigDoor, a gaming firm, complained in a blog post that these seemed to have been written by lawyers and accountants "rather than by a tech guy trying to help another tech guy.
That is a black mark against a company that prides itself on being among the world’s most customer-centered. But none of this means the shift to cloud computing is about to go into reverse. Indeed, Forrester, a research outfit, reckons that the global market for cloud services could grow from $ 41 billion last year to $ 241 billion by 2020. One reason for this is that the savings that can be won by shifting computing to the cloud remain compelling; another is that Amazon-style snafus have been rare.
Yet another is that managing one’s own network is hardly a guarantee of reliability. Ask Sony, whose online-gaming system, although delivered through the cloud, is hosted on its own servers. Services were suspended on April 20th after an intrusion was detected, but Sony then took almost a week to admit the risks to users’ personal data. The company insisted’ it had taken this long for it to realize the seriousness of the threat. But this claim was met with skepticism; and Sony’s failure to encrypt all of its customers’ data may bring it lawsuits and regulatory penalties.
It can be inferred from the last paragraph that Sony________.
选项
A、can provide reliable online-gaming service for its users
B、realized the potential risks shortly after a serious failure
C、may be severely punished by its users in the future
D、has aroused suspicion about its assertion from its customers
答案
D
解析
本题是推断题。文章末句提到,But this claim was met with skepticism(但这种说法遭到了质疑)。因此可以推断出其顾客对索尼公司的声明持质疑的态度,D项中的suspicion,assertion与原文中的skepticism,claim属同义替换,故答案选D。A项源于末段首句,作者认为自行管理网络几乎没有可靠性保障,暗含着索尼公司不能为其用户提供可靠的服务,因此A项和原文内容矛盾;原文提到,该公司坚称,它花了这么长时间才意识到威胁的严重性,B项错在shortly(很快,不久);C项源于文章末句,该句提到,索尼公司可能会惹上官司并受到监管处罚,选项中的遭到惩罚没有错,但应该是由监管者(regulators)来惩罚,而不是users(用户)。故均排除。
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