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In article <iat0s9pmdsjeoc47l9h5d3rfsoi4io2pi1@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

a cloud outage might be annoying, but the data won't be lost.

Eric Stevens
No?

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no.

Eric Stevens
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-lost-data-2011-4 and

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/hazards-of-the-cloud-data-storage-servi ces-crash-sets-back-researchers/52571 or http://tinyurl.com/mrj4rm9 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss and http://web.stanford.edu/~cidon/materials/CR.pdf and http://spanning.com/blog/top-threats-to-cloud-computing-2-data-loss/ and many more.

Which rock have you been sleeping under?

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none.

what you've shown above is that it's vital to have backups.

*any* system can crash, whether it's the cloud or a local hard drive. the question is when, not if.

in the event something fails, you replace the failed component or wait for the cloud service to do it and restore from a backup if needed.

nothing is lost. it's just an annoyance.

now, there will always be stupid people who don't make backups, which means they might lose data when something fails, but that's because they're stupid enough to not have a backup.

that's not a failure of the cloud. that's a failure of their own doing.

when (not if) their local hard drive fails, they'll lose data too.