Lately, it seems like there have been a number of high profile outages. Whether it is the numerous outages at Amazon AWS, Google Apps, or this recent GoDaddy outage – one trend is that these are all very large infrastructures. With size comes attention. And with that attention, one must be vigilant.

Here is another interesting blog on this outage:
http://www.dincloud.com/blog/Cloud-Security-and-Outage-Trends

Hope you'll find it full of interesting information.

Doesn’t bode well for our 22 to 30 million dollar, non UL/CSA certified, overrunning smart meter/grid ,waste of money scam! It’s not if but when somebody takes down this junk system.

There goes Gerard again. Just makes stuff up to blabber about. 30 million on the smart grid? No truth to that at all Gerard now is there? SMAG (smart meter awareness group) just makes stuff up as they go because that's how they roll!

Really, making it up? Ever hear of Stuxnet? Watch the first 30 seconds of the Sixty Minutes piece regarding our smart grid infrastructure, how vulnerable it is, and the definite staement of WHEN NOT IF it will be brought down by cyber terrorists.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7400904n

Hey Jo,
Ummm, I was clearly talking about Gerards made-up number of 30 Million. In true SMAG fashion you move off topic once the group gets called out for it's bogus info that it pushes. SMAG gets called out on one lie they just move on to the next!

Gerard, you apparently are having another "Emily Littela" moment. The consultant being retained, if you read the Manager's Memo carefully, is charged with creating a "Strategic Technology Plan" for the City. That has nothing to do with correcting any supposed software problems with the Smart Grid System. All large organizations, like the City, need to have a Technology Plan so they can make the best use of technology to reduce costs and improve efficiencies and customer experience for all departments. How that got twisted into something to do with Smart Grid software is rather curious.
Oh, and Gerard... Your old analog electric meter isn't UL certified either... imagine that... but of course you already knew that, didn't you.

Hi Bob,
So nice to hear from you, thought like Hale whose quote, “I only regret I have but one life to give….” that you come over to the other side and realized the error of your ways due to the messiah like belief in government knows best and smart meters being your and society’s salvation! Like Obama’s hope and change, meters and readers do nothing to make electricity more abundant and cheaper.
By the way the excuse of always hiring consultants in a little lame by now and if you cut through the BS the consultant is being hired to resolve the billing fiasco caused by the new improved software to screw the rate payer. If we need to hire a consultant to write a IS strategic plan then we need to fire the various IS managers we currently have!!
You never told us weather you bought an extra fire extinguisher because of the fire hazard smart meters pose due to their plastic and combustible products composition as opposed to the analogue’s which are glass, steel and aluminum?

So Gerard gets busted for lying and what does he do? Keeps right on with the lies! Classic megalomaniac response. Smart Meter Awareness Group(SMAG) must be proud of you Gerard.

WN,
Adults take responsibility for their actions, use healthy skepticism when their government raise their taxes, object when these things are scams and always, always question what is being done by the elite few for the benefit of the ignorant masses like me. If you wish to characterize it as you do be my guest. I am done wasting my time on your nonsense!

Krieger as a child playing city manager with taxpayer money on the "green" smart meter folly

http://burbanked.tumblr.com/post/25092229498/ive-thrown-money-out-the-window-like-spanky

City management can best be described as inept, more accurately as arrogant, wasteful and vindictive. Remember that when Krieger was sworn in , CNN Money rated Naperville as #3. It has now plummeted to 53rd place. Any more taxpayer funded boondoggles in the pipeline?

HOME FIRE HAZARD MANDATED BY OUR CITY COUNCIL!
At Naperville’s 9/18/2012 City Council’s Open Forum (on their video from minutes 20:40 to 58) a number of residents and members of the Naperville Smart Meter Awareness group discussed in great detail the FIRE Hazards posed by smart meters.

To view this informative session and council’s responses open this link. http://naperville.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=542

Bottom line is ComEd and other city’s electric companies have put on hold installation of these devices which are not UL or CSA certified until their state’s PUC get answers to fires which have been attributed to (directly or indirectly) these meters. Our city council and manger dismissively disregard any concern and councilman Wehrli was outright hostile to any suggestion to go slow and some would say badgered the speakers.

It’s bad enough that our electric rates, water rates, gas cost, city fees and taxes keep rising at unjustifiable rates now we have to accept against our will on OUR HOMES a device which may literally kill us!

Not one local paper covered this significant potential threat to all of us and they should start reporting objectively on this subject instead of just being shills for the city!
G H Schilling
Naperville, IL

Or maybe the press in the area is just tired of your group of luddites, Gerard. Did you ever stop and think that maybe the press has joined the rest of Naperville in thinking that the SMAG will say and do anything to get the attention they so crave? Your group is now, rightfully so, seen as a group of children who will whine and cry to get people to pay attention to them... just like your TEA party Gerard!