An architect is concerned about architectural risk for public/private cloud applications. Traditional risk assessments focus on external/internal access to confidential information like social security numbers, credit card numbers, and for banks PINs for the ATMs. The desire is to avoid single points of failure for critical applications so that catastrophic errors don’t occur; those lead to huge financial losses and a diminished corporate brand. Here are some storage and networking diagnostic questions I would ask for the top-10 applications within a corporation. Questions that need to be asked are pertinent to all applications and some just within a given domain.”]