Cheers!
Yeah right; "pay us $5 a month and never worry about your data."
One born every minute!
DVD-Rs and a little discipline and all your critical files are safe.
Big deal.
I don’t trust online backup services for a number of reasons.
From security to actual availability.
If you have data that you value, you must make backups - in truth you need backups of backups.
The Sidekick service had nothing to do with cloud computing. It was a hosted service with a classical client/server design that had a single point of failure.
Cloud technology, like RAID technology and the Internet itself, distributes data and processing across multiple nodes. One or more nodes can go down, even the whole mesh can go down, but the data is safe... or at least, much safer than it is in a Sidekick-style architecture.
I sense that Microsoft is trying to make some lemonade from this lemon of a mess they’ve made. Their business model, after all, is under assault from cloud-based services like Google Documents. If they’re going to crater a half-billion-dollar acquisition as they have with Danger/Sidekick, they’d at least want to take a few swipes at their nemesis as they go down. It’s unseemly, but it sure looks like that’s what’s going on. Because the Danger/Sidekick mess had nothing to do with cloud computing, and reports of this sort have everything to do with agenda.
Also:
See http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/10/09/exclusive-pink-danger-leaks-from-microsofts-windows-phone/
Entertainingly written, informative and devastating. Yum.
as far as conspiracy theories go, this one is worth very little. it sounds good until you realize that the idea is to rid the r&d branch of the obligation to maintain the system by purposefully wrecking the system. they could have just sold off the intellectual property and kept the programmers.
SAN upgrades got nuttin’ to do wid it. Microsoft, Hitachi, Apple, whatever, got nuttin’ to do wid it. Here at some point we had system administrators who did not ensure that they had adequate backup, whatever the medium. No excuses. In our profession there are few cardinal sins but that’s one of them. No FUD, please, no conspiracy, no clouding of the waters. Somebody had intimate relations with the pooch and that’s the end of it. IMHO, of course.
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