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The Sidekick Failure and Cloud Culpability
miller60 writes "There's a vigorous debate among cloud pundits about whether the apparent loss of all Sidekick users' data is a reflection on the trustworthiness of cloud computing or simply another cautionary tale about poor backup practices. InformationWeek calls the incident 'a code red cloud disaster.' But some cloud technologists insist data center failures are not cloud failures. Is this distinction meaningful? Or does the cloud movement bear the burden of fuzzy definitions in assessing its shortcomings as well as its promise?"
Didn't that throw up any red flags for ANYONE?
This belongs in the BSA story. At least there it might be modded insightful or funny.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
I thought the same thing about "Microsoft".
Okay guys, that joke's done, let's get on with our lives.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
Cloud computing is where your data goes up in smoke.
AC for a reason.
No it's cold. Besides how am I going to watch these latest episodes of Stargate and Eureka if I'm outside playing with the squirrels and birds?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Cloud architecture shards data
In this case it certainly did.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
The TOS probably made the users aware that "your data is in Danger" so they can't complain now :-)
I don't know about you, but I keep all my keys in a safe.
When I go out, I open up the safe (which has it's own key), and then take only the keys I'll need for my outing.
I keep them loose, in my various pockets.
When I return, I return the keys.
One time I locked the key to the safe inside the safe itself.
What a day that was.