Ballmer Says Obvious: SideKick Outage "Not Good"

[Guest]

well, if the data come sometimes be recoverable, I'd take that over my data literally being exploded outta my phone...iPhone, anyone?

 

[ravewulf]

I could trust cloud computing, but I much prefer a combination of local AND cloud storage. Cloud storage has the benefit of syncing to any pc through the internet, local storage has the benefit of being directly in control of the data, and together they add redundancy. If one gets wiped out, the other will still remain.

 

[brittanyn89]

You get what you pay for, why do you think their services are so cheap?

 

[midnightgun]

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They are selling two thousand dollar core i5 systems...

I wouldn't brag about it...

 

[liquidsnake718]

"not good" - lol..... basically, im bored and ill let my minions at software & troubleshooting handle this.... oh wait it was probably outsourced so let ehose guys all the way over at India or another country handle it with our servers and Infosystems...

I need to get back on my new next gen earth shaking gizmo that will make the earth green and connected...

 

[jcknouse]

If the world's largest software maker can't organize a seamless backup-to-transition hardware upgrade of a cloud environment, how do you think smaller, less-funded cloud providers are going to do?

I wouldn't trust cloud. It is just another business paradigm waiting to have its budget cut, staff diminished, and overall quality ruined by cheap companies only worried about profits.

 

[eccentric909]

I also like how the "warranty" for the XBOXes doesn't really cover shipping... since they don't send you a box to put it in anymore.

Really? My friend just sent his in last week and Microsoft sent him a box. It was his first time having a problem, was a launch system and was technically out of the 3-year warranty.

I have a hard time believing they stopped covering the shipping.

 

[Belardo]

"not good" ... now we know why they pay him the big bucks!

 

[tanderskey]

sure i suppose "trusting cloud computing" in general is part of the fallout here -- if a label like "cloud computing" has to take part of the blame.

in this example here i think of the issue as more an issue with a specific company and would have to ask users affected by this data loss if they can trust with their data with that company again -- how companies keep user data safe, i dont think their customers care, they simply want to count on it always being there.

and with regard to any business using cloud computing, i'd say its really not a new problem to solve. with data, like with security, layers are very important and so is redundancy even when it comes to cloud computing.

if the data is important, and to most businesses it is /the/ most important thing. take care of it by planning for bad things to happen and having policies in place for architecting something new and auditing it once its up and running ... even if youre contracting it out.

so in the end i have lost any trust for "cloud computing" but its also not magic ... we still have to do our work ... even if the cloud makes growing our apps easier.