[oneplane]

And this is why outsourcing 100% of your stuff isn't the greatest idea. Sure, the 'managing servers is not your core business'-story holds up most of the time, but when you have no control of anything anymore, you no longer control your services.

[rhizome]

I would think "business continuity" is a core function of, you know, business.

[oneplane]

As do I, but that's not what marketing teams advertise for ;-) I suppose doing something like specific offloading makes for a great cloud case, but being able to run the baseline at home will at least guarantee a degree of control that will keep you going.