![]() ![]() This attention bespeaks intense interest in the cloud: Let’s face it, all the hullabaloo about this incident is good news, because it means people recognize cloud computing is an important development. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, trying to convince someone that it’s not a duck because it’s actually a similar looking, slightly different species is unlikely to be successful. In any case, clever dissembling is beside the point. Cloud computing is a big tent (if I may mix a metaphor), and one of its strengths is the fact that many different approaches can be considered as cloud computing. And trying to deflect concern about this incident by defining it away misses the point. With the blurring of consumer and commercial use, what’s personal to one person might be mission-critical to another. The “it’s really a consumer service” rationale won’t wash, either. It certainly fits into the common SaaS definitions. That’s baloney.įirst of all, it is a cloud application. ![]() They say it’s a limited application, or an adjunct service to a hardware device, or it’s really a consumer service and therefore not a “real” cloud application because those are aimed at business users. It’s a cloud: Some writing I’ve seen on this incident downplay it because, in the view of the authors, this service isn’t really a cloud offering. ![]() While it’s unlikely that one should conflate this situation with the totality of cloud computing, there are some very, very important issues highlighted by this situation that are worth exploring and understanding. ![]() People on all sides of the cloud debate have been debating this incident and treating it as though it is a proxy for the entire concept of cloud computing. I don’t know that Microsoft has provided any formal explanation of what went wrong, but most of the speculation I’ve seen identifies a failed SAN upgrade with no data backup available as the cause for the data loss. Apparently, it now seems that some or most of the data will be recovered, which is, of course, good news. An apologetic email ( as reported by TechCrunch) first went out from Microsoft to users noting that all data had been lost with no way to recover it. This week’s cloud tempest is the very visible breakdown of Microsoft’s Danger storage service for the T-Mobile Sidekick phone. ![]()
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