{"id":3037,"date":"2011-08-17T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T03:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2024-07-09T07:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:45:45","slug":"so-what-are-my-reservations-about-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3037","title":{"rendered":"So What Are My Reservations About Cloud Computing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re the cloud as presented in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo<\/a><br \/>\nWhat happens when someone in authority does not like what you have stored on &#8220;their\/your&#8221; cloud and decides to delete your account? (Recently happened to the email account of an anti-vaccination campaigner I know.)<\/p>\n<p>What happens if your cloud vendor has a power outage and you cannot access your data for three days? (Happened recently in EU &#8211; Amazon&#8217;s botched backup causes cloud chaos, admits software bug also caused it to delete storage snapshots. Some customers forced to wait up to three days for Amazon to retrieve a snapshot&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/News\/267086,amazons-botched-backup-causes-cloud-chaos.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/News\/267086,amazons-botched-backup-causes-cloud-chaos.aspx<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the incidents in the Chrome notebook presentation are dramatic and we probably all know someone who has suffered a loss, they are far from routine. Good backup practices are vital for data preservation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taobackup.com\/\">http:\/\/www.taobackup.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cloud most benefits the storage space vendors and big brother.<\/p>\n<p>Not for this little black duck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re the cloud as presented in\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo What happens when someone in authority does not like what you have stored on &#8220;their\/your&#8221; cloud and decides to delete your account? (Recently happened to the email account of an anti-vaccination campaigner I know.) What happens if your cloud vendor has a power outage and you cannot access your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So What Are My Reservations About Cloud Computing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tips-basic","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56220,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/56220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}