Cloud and Backups

The other day I stumbled across a link to an article, Why you should stop buying servers. The title was interesting…

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Crashplan

Those who regularly follow my blog know that I see cloud as a great unknown when it comes to data…

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Clouds and bandaids

I’m going to stir the pot a bit here and suggest that a reasonable percentage of businesses considering cloud deployments…

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37 Signals and the “end of the IT department”

The folks over at 37 Signals published a little piece of what I would have to describe as crazy fiction,…

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Can you trust Azure?

So The Register has a story about how Microsoft is edging closer to delivering it’s cloud based system, Azure. It…

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Google service and accountability in The Cloud

Over at The Register, there’s a story, “Gmail users howl over Halloween Outage“. As readers may remember, I discussed in…

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The scandalous truth about Clouds

Your cloud based data may be hanging by a thread and you wouldn’t even know. Introduction The recent Sidekick debacle…

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Is Sidekick a Cloud Failure?

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. J.K. Rowling, “Harry…

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Larry Ellison vs The Cloud

This article came out on the 26th of September (US time), but since that was my birthday (27th, AU time),…

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Mozying along

For my own personal data, I use a variety of backup and archival methods depending on the data I wish…

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