[Discuss] What Happens when a cloud service shuts down

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

These days, the buzz word is cloud. You put stuff into a cloud, you
expect your data to be safe and accessible. But, as most of us know,
Megaupload has been shut down. A lot of us Android users are affected
because much of ADA Developers were on that cloud. This is one reason
why some of these backup solutions may not be ideal. Theoretically, a
cloud is a virtual storage device where the actual storage media should
be in several different locations fully mirrored. The worst case it is
not even in a secure data center. Companies like Amazon, Google,
Microsoft, IBM, HP are huge and have multiple datacenters so if one
datacenter gets destroyed by a hurricane, tornado, or a bomb, the other
data centers continue without much of an issue. But, assume you are
using a backup service and it suddenly declares bankruptcy. Or,
similarly, what happens if your car is parked in a secure parking garage
and the operator goes bankrupt. In any case, your data (or your car)
would be held hostage.


http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/20/1755207/what-happens-to-your-files-when-a-cloud-service-shuts-down

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