On October 12, 2009
Limits of the Cloud Spells Data Loss
It’s been quite a week for data loss. First, Microsoft and T-Mobile managed to create an enormous crash, wiping out customer data in both primary and backup storage, without any off-line copies apparently having been included in the system design. Apple uncharacteristically admits a problem with data loss in Snow Leopard, though saying that it only happens in “extremely rare cases,” which is little comfort if that’s where you find yourself. And Facebook had a database outage that cut 150,000 users from getting into their accounts. And that doesn’t even include Google’s two Gmail outages last month, which led the Christian Science Monitor to ask if Gmail is the new Twitter. Don’t think this is a curious anomaly, as there…
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