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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.
According to the author, system failures of Amazon arose from________.
选项
A、its perpetual leakage
B、the ambiguous interpretation
C、the inefficient managers
D、its internal vulnerability
答案
D
解析
本题是细节题。根据题干关键词定位至第三段第二句。该句提到,“但似乎是在弗吉尼亚北部的数据中心发生了一个严重问题,引起运行中断,导致一些使用该中心基础设施的企业受到影响”。可知,是亚马逊公司在弗吉尼亚北部的数据中心发生故障,从而导致其他公司也受到影响,因此推断出是由其内部系统漏洞造成的,故答案选D。A项源于第三段第三句,原文中提到一些数据似乎已经永久丢失,这句话是故障所引起的后果,不是故障发生的原因;B项源于第三段第四句,该句是说亚马逊对故障的解释模糊不清导致企业客户生气,也是故障带来的结果,不是发生故障的原因;C项内容在文中并未提及。故均排除。
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