"Small change".. wow, I feel better now.

As mentioned in another post, this has nothing to do with cloud. It's sheer datacenter incompetence: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/12/the-sidekick-failure-and-cloud-culpability/

saidi

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
Losing phone numbers and SMSes is small change compared to losing BACKUPS. A backup company sometime ago lost 7,500 customers' data! http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/23/online-backup-company-carbonite-loses-customers-data-blames-and-sues-suppliers/


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
just goes to show that  the cloud is no panacea, outsourcing is not
bulletproof and incompetence abounds and can be found anywhere. we
rely on microsoft, google, yahoo, amazon etc to keep our data safe.
what's our backup? it would be naive to think this is an isolated case

On 10/13/09, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:
> This is nasty. it actually hurts... i really feel for micro$oft on this one.
>
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