India, Nov. 30 -- From their timing to frequency to bounce-back windows to eventual impact - outages in cloud environments are becoming serious enough to come on the front-burner of an enterprise's security strategy. Let's watch this pot while it boils.

It may not happen every day. It can be fixed with a spare wheel in no time. Yet, a tyre-which has gone bust-hurts quite bad. Specially when the vehicle is a truck carrying a load for a lot of businesses. More so, when this truck is dashing past a superhighway, where its slight loss of speed can cause big ripples of confusion and delays for other vehicles in that lane.

The truckload of cloud cannot afford these interruptions. And no matter how big or strong you are, an outage is not somet...