The Sidekick Failure and Cloud Culpability

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 12, 2009 @02:27AM from the lowered-expectations dept.

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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Re:For the love of God the company is called "Dang by commodore64_love · 2009-10-12 03:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

>>>I miss my Sidekick immensely.
For some reason this sentence suddenly reminded me of this youtube video of two sisters arguing over a Sidekick (fastforward to 1:40) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcFUDvTFokg
This video is also fun to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STtL5EJFUgE

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