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?"

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

[syntap]

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

Wrong story

[davidwr]

This belongs in the BSA story. At least there it might be modded insightful or funny.

Re:For the love of God the company is called "Dang

[Sockatume]

I thought the same thing about "Microsoft".

Okay guys, that joke's done, let's get on with our lives.

Re:What IS cloud computing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Cloud computing is where your data goes up in smoke.

AC for a reason.

Re:Cloud Failure

[commodore64_love]

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?

Cloud Computing

[snspdaarf]

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.

TOS

[ei4anb]

The TOS probably made the users aware that "your data is in Danger" so they can't complain now :-)

Re:Management

[sexconker]

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.