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?"

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For the love of God the company is called "Danger"

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Didn't that throw up any red flags for ANYONE?

Cloud Computing

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The best part of TFA is the comment below from their version of an A/C:

Cloud architecture shards data

In this case it certainly did.