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

[JRR]

The moral to this story is:

       If you're going to use a Totem Pole Topology  (hint Seattle 
northwest) then don't choose
       the lowest bidder all the time...... clouds can make flash 
floods.........
       not Confucius  ...

Ken Kauffman wrote:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Ken Kauffman* <kkauffman at headfog.com 
> <mailto:kkauffman at headfog.com>>
> Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 18:34
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] OT: Microsoft Danger's loss of all data on 
> Sidekick servers
> To: Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org <mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org>>
>
>
> 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
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 18:30, Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org 
> <mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org>> wrote:
>
>     Some T-mobile users with Blackberry systems were also affected
>     from 1st
>     hand exposure.
>
>     Microsoft's IT is the worst in the industry.  You should have seen
>     their
>     DNS until they finally just outsourced it to Akamai (among other
>     things).
>
>     "Duh, let's put all of our DNS servers on one subnet that hackers can
>     attack."  And even then, they didn't catch it.  "Duh, let's take
>     both of
>     our redundant routers down at the same time."  And when they
>     mis-flashed
>     those routers, that finally caused someone _else_ to realize what the
>     problem is.  ;)
>
>     I could go on about Microsoft IT, their partners (Accenture, etc...).
>     Pathetic, lowest bidder, etc...
>
>
>     --
>     Bryan J  Smith         Professional, Technical Annoyance
>     Linked Profile:       http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith
>     --------------------------------------------------------
>     Only engineers can solve the growing needs of consumers
>     Stop being "aware" (that's so '70s) and start supporting
>     real solutions that actually work and sustain the planet
>
>
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