Comments on: The trend towards zero is the trend towards risk

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:07:29 +0000

Ben i think you blend a couple of things here

1) Free services and the support (or lack of) that they get

2) the robustness of cloud computing.

I think they are different, the cloud isn’t failing. Google is

@ M has a valid point, every person working in technology should backup. Its good practice ( I have two of my website).

By: Paul Spence

Paul Spence — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:07:50 +0000

Interesting comments. Last year I lost a lot of my webmail due to a server meltdown at my ISP. Ironically I had backed up most of the currently active stuff on my GMail, so the loss was minimal. The nuisance factor was bad enough to remind me of the importance of multiple backups.

With the new business, we have a virtual server based off site that handles our office Wiki, email and data storage. But I frequently back up important docs onto a CD from my laptop as well.

You can never have enough backups.

By: M Freitas

M Freitas — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:32:24 +0000

You are saying you trust providers totally and don’t have a backup of your data?

Here is the thing: if Zoho closes tomorrow, are you able to re-use the information and data on Google? If Google has a BIBLICAL FAIL, how would you and a lot of people cope?

I have st least four copies of my documents (main notebook, travel notebook, Carbonite, Windows Home Server) and still don’t feel safe.

I know that it’s easy to gt any Office program from the shelves if I don’t have the install discs (which I have in more than one place) and quickly restore order.

The problem is that we also don’t want the users to become IT managers.

Hence products such as Windows Home Server, Apple Time Capsule, Carbonite, Mozy and others. Make things simple for users.

Seriously I am not using anything in the cloud, yet. The time may come, but I am waiting.