[Novalug] Fwd: OT: Microsoft Danger's loss of all data on Sidekick servers

[John Franklin]

Yes, but MS and Google are both fighting hard to get a IT contract for  
Los Angles.  I'm wondering if L.A. is looking at this and reweighing  
their alternatives.

jf

On Oct 12, 2009, at 6:47 PM, ethan at 757.org wrote:

>> Cloud storage is just a bad idea overall.  You entrust your data to  
>> someone
>> else and the higher the volume of data you store, the more  
>> difficult it is
>> to put/get it.
>> Ken
>
>> From the reports, I've not actually heard that the SAN storage was  
>> HDS
> product.
>
> I have not heard that it was Hitachi, just read that it was a SAN
> consulting firm owned by Hitachi.
>
> Danger was an aquisition by Microsoft. Most likely it was existing
> infrastructure.
>
> I wouldn't blame the lack of backups on the consulting firm.
>
> The idea that it was done to kill a competitor to Microsoft is indeed
> interesting :-)
>
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