{"id":2465,"date":"2009-10-12T12:56:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T12:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/12\/the-sidekick-data-in-the-cloud-and-practical-advice\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T12:56:02","slug":"the-sidekick-data-in-the-cloud-and-practical-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/the-sidekick-data-in-the-cloud-and-practical-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sidekick, Data in the Cloud, and Practical Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News that Microsoft subsidiary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/10\/10\/t-mobile-we-probably-lost-all-your-sidekick-data\/\">Danger has pretty much lost all the cloud data for users of Sidekick phones<\/a> is pretty shocking to those who are promoting \u201cthe cloud\u201d as a good place to do online work. I\u2019ve posted an editorial over on All About Symbian:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s going to be more worrying for the industry as a whole is the damage that this will do to the idea of cloud computing, the idea that your data is safe, the goal of just moving everything online (such as Google Apps) and running your corporate email and document storage there is a noble one, but it&#8217;s not a solution to everything. It has risks and, unlike the computer on your desk, those risks may not be what you have come across before. But they are there.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s spin that gamblers adage around for the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trust every cloud, but back up your own data<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> The full article is over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutsymbian.com\/news\/item\/10593_And_thats_why_you_back_up_your.php\">All About Symbian<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News that Microsoft subsidiary Danger has pretty much lost all the cloud data for users of Sidekick phones is pretty shocking to those who are promoting \u201cthe cloud\u201d as a good place to do online work. I\u2019ve posted an editorial over on All About Symbian: What&#8217;s going to be more worrying for the industry as a whole is the damage that this will do to the idea of cloud computing, the idea that your data is safe, the goal of just moving everything online (such as Google Apps) and running your corporate email and document storage there is a noble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[404,1412,1411,1413,574,132,1410],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-my-articles","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-backup","tag-cloud-computing","tag-danger","tag-data-loss","tag-fail","tag-microsoft","tag-sidekick","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-DL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}