http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/when-the-cloud-fails/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:21:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/when-the-cloud-fails/#comment-75013 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:06:17 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3179#comment-75013 Hard drives are dirt cheap these days. Stick an external drive to your computer, back it up, and take it with you wherever you go. Better to keep your data on something you can have full control on, if you really worry about losing it.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/when-the-cloud-fails/#comment-75012 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:45:56 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3179#comment-75012 I think the problem is one of unrealistic expectations by users. There are NO guarantees in life. Stuff happens. Please show me how you guarantee to your spouse that you will make it home safely from work or that you won’t slip and crack your skull on the bath tub? You can’t!!

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/when-the-cloud-fails/#comment-75011 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:34:13 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3179#comment-75011 It’s one guy out of many tens of millions of Google accounts? It’s unfortunate, but a lot more people lose their email to a hard drive failure every day than lose it to a Google screw up.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/when-the-cloud-fails/#comment-75010 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:28:07 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3179#comment-75010 This is not about “the cloud”, it’s about Google.

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