Re: Cloud computing ( was Re: Linux Petition )

On 24/04/2012 13:34, Bernard Peek wrote:
>
>> If you rely on the cloud provider to maintain your backup as well as 
>> your primary data you risk being denied access to both backup and 
>> primary if anything happens to that provider (goes bust, gets shut 
>> down by the feds etc).
>>
>
> Assuming you use the same cloud provider for live services and backup. 
> That would be unusual I think. Of course there's always a possibility 
> that there's a single point of failure somewhere and you don't always 
> know where they might be hiding. 

Very true but I suspect that many customers will be attracted by the 
data durability claims of many cloud providers, or that "all data is 
fully backed up". I fear that using the same cloud provider for both 
live and backup is probably not as unusual an occurrence as we might think.

Simon.
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