Who Protects Your Cloud Data?
By Kristopher A. Nelson
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January 2008
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Web Worker Daily - Who Protects Your Cloud Data?: Yet in a world of imperfect hardware and software, as well as regulatory and legal issues, choosing one company for storage is still ultimately a gamble. It may be unthinkable that an EMC or Amazon or Google could fail, but it’s not impossible. No matter how […]
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Web Worker Daily – Who Protects Your Cloud Data?:
Yet in a world of imperfect hardware and software, as well as regulatory and legal issues, choosing one company for storage is still ultimately a gamble. It may be unthinkable that an EMC or Amazon or Google could fail, but it’s not impossible. No matter how carefully you choose, entrusting your data to a single online storage vendor is the equivalent to storing it on a single hard drive: it introduces a single point of failure into the system.