Microsoft’s Danger subsidiary suffered a massive and permanent data loss this week. Chalk this up to the dangers of cloud computing.
A week ago… Microsoft’s Danger unit experienced a huge outage that left many T-Mobile Sidekick users without access to their calendar, address book, and other key data. That’s because the Sidekick keeps nearly all its data in the cloud as opposed to keeping the primary copy on the devices themselves.
Just when you thought it was bad, it gets worse.
Things got even worse on Saturday, as Microsoft said in a statement that data not recovered thus far may be permanently lost. It’s not immediately clear how many people lost their data.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
The Danger outage comes just a month before Microsoft is expected to launch its operating system in the cloud—Windows Azure. That announcement is expected at November’s Professional Developer Conference. One of the characteristics of Azure is that programs written for it can be run only via Microsoft’s data centers and not on a company’s own servers.
That’s a great confidence builder.
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