From Sidekick to Gmail: A short history of cloud computing outages

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Published: October 19, 2009Posted in: Business Intelligence, Cloud SolutionsTags:
From Sidekick to Gmail: A short history of cloud computing outages
This past week’s Microsoft-T-Mobile-Sidekick data loss mess is the latest in a string of high profile cloud computing outages that have grabbed headlines over the past couple of years. Inevitably, the coverage of the initial outage (as well as cloud security breaches) is followed by explanations of why the outage happened (human error, network equipment, hackers, etc.) and analysis stories pointing out the pitfalls of putting your faith in the cloud.
http://www.itworld.com/hardware/80637/from-sidekick-gmail-a-short-history-cloud-computing-outages
Here’s a short history of cloud computing SNAFUs:

This past week’s Microsoft-T-Mobile-Sidekick data loss mess is the latest in a string of high profile cloud computing outages that have grabbed headlines over the past couple of years. Inevitably, the coverage of the initial outage (as well as cloud security breaches) is followed by explanations of why the outage happened (human error, network equipment, hackers, etc.) and analysis stories pointing out the pitfalls of putting your faith in the cloud.

http://www.itworld.com/hardware/80637/from-sidekick-gmail-a-short-history-cloud-computing-outages

Here’s a short history of cloud computing SNAFUs:

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