MSFT: We've Got Most of the Sidekick Data Back

[JMcEntegart]

It seems this whole Sidekick debacle is finally coming to an end. Microsoft has said the company has managed to recover "most, if not all," of the data lost.

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[curnel_D]

Sabatage! No one cares about server malfunctions. It's much more fun to think it was someone on a revenge induced rampage.

 

[the_krasno]

Still this doesn not explain the failure in the back up servers.

 

[magicandy]

Server failure. The sabotage thing was most likely a scapegoat created just in case they couldn't recover the data.

 

[JMcEntegart]

[citation][nom]Curnel_D[/nom]Sabatage! No one cares about server malfunctions. It's much more fun to think it was someone on a revenge induced rampage.[/citation]

Agreed. Who's says life at Microsoft can't be sexy?

 

[zak_mckraken]

MS is still screwed in the lawsuit. Even if they do manage to recover all lost data, the fact that they stated they recovered "most" of the user data is the perfect opportunity for people to claim they are still lacking data, even though they don't. People are just that greedy.

 

[warezme]

Sabotage derived from the Netherlands when workers would throw their wooden shoes or sabots into the textile mills to break them as explained in a star trek movie.

 

[bydesign]

Got to love cloud computing... This is just the tip of iceberg with this technology. The real destater will be the modern day equivalent of the destruction of the great library of Alexandria.

 

[ssalim]

Server outage and the backup too? Yea right. For a small newbie company maybe but for Microsoft/Danger? No way in hell.

S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]bydesign[/nom]Got to love cloud computing... This is just the tip of iceberg with this technology. The real destater will be the modern day equivalent of the destruction of the great library of Alexandria.[/citation]
I think one of the better ways we could implement cloud computing is if data is stored locally as well as in the cloud. They both can act as data redundencey and the cloud can be used to sync changes between all connected computers. There should also be a safety mechanism for when data is deleted on a device. Windows Live Mesh seems to do this fairly well, even if it is still in beta.

 

[dextermat]

Once again, that well known company put themselves; "sucks" in Microsucks lol

 

[dirtykid]

[citation][nom]ravewulf[/nom]I think one of the better ways we could implement cloud computing is if data is stored locally as well as in the cloud. They both can act as data redundencey and the cloud can be used to sync changes between all connected computers. There should also be a safety mechanism for when data is deleted on a device. Windows Live Mesh seems to do this fairly well, even if it is still in beta.[/citation]

Um, do we all really want to be synchronizing the exabytes of data that cloud based computing is presuming to support? Synching my data with a local source might not cause 'extra bandwidth' charges monthly, until I have a 20 megapixel camera...

 

[jecht]

Now on to the juicer topic of how it all happened in the first place.

The juicer...topic? Wait wait, are you saying a JUICER caused the crash?! Like, someone plugged in a juicer and it blew the circuit?! Holy crap! There you have it folks, someone plugged in a juicer and crashed the servers!

 

[Guest]

Server outage and the backup too? Yea right. For a small newbie company maybe but for Microsoft/Danger? No way in hell.

S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E

Why do people underestimate human incompetence?

 

[liquidsnake718]

recent outage? What kind? Power?

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]JMcEntegart[/nom]Agreed. Who's says life at Microsoft can't be sexy?[/citation]
^_^
[citation][nom]jecht[/nom]The juicer...topic? Wait wait, are you saying a JUICER caused the crash?! Like, someone plugged in a juicer and it blew the circuit?! Holy crap! There you have it folks, someone plugged in a juicer and crashed the servers![/citation]
My microwave crashes my computer (blows a breaker sometimes), but not the juicer, doesn't quite use as much power...

 

[ossie]

More likely is microsuxx trying to eliminate competition's products. Historically, most of their attempts, resulted in data loss.
Dogfooding is great!

 

[tanderskey]

so its either "a system failure" or "sabotage" ... hmm ... those are my only two choices ... and both sound a bit lame.

i wonder if they were in middle of a some type of database upgrade and it hung ... or the upgrade corrupted everything ... and because theyre using all of their own products they cant admit to that and so label it a generic system failure.

but they wouldnt have been silly enough to be upgrading all their clustered, geographically redundant databases at the same time, would they?

... they are clustered and geographically redundant (times three) arent they?

... there is also some lazy monthly backup to hard media because they need a stop-gap for important customer data, right?

you think they'll ever say what cloud computing service they were using ... Microsoft's own Azure, perchance?