Cloud BURST!
There's been a lot of chatter about cloud computing, and I've certainly touched on the risks. Now, we have a concrete example of what can go horribly wrong. T-Mobile users of the Sidekick smartphone may have lost all of their personal data when master copies were affected by a server outage.
Microsoft, you got some explaining to do!





Here is a story on the class action lawsuits that resulted from the bursting cloud: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/182295.asp
Posted by: John Jablonski | October 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM