tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185297525546983459.post1324901491127665218..comments2023-06-14T05:47:28.239-04:00Comments on View from the Bridge: How High is UpCaptain Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04440863300015292162noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185297525546983459.post-43265610383877198332011-07-28T15:45:38.889-04:002011-07-28T15:45:38.889-04:00Sorry to hear about your recent troubles, my frien...Sorry to hear about your recent troubles, my friend. Perhaps you will get something out of tomorrow's column. It deals with some special considerations when using cloud service providers.Captain Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04440863300015292162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185297525546983459.post-86380768335954845672011-07-27T15:57:36.407-04:002011-07-27T15:57:36.407-04:00Hmmmm.... I just had a run-in with my webspace pro...Hmmmm.... I just had a run-in with my webspace provider today, who is advertising - and has been for years - unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited mySQL databases, email accounts etc.<br /><br />All of a sudden my accounts showed BLOCKED today... upon research it turned out that 'unlimited' only meant for 'websites' and the small print had a gazillion exceptions. Needless to say their support was less than stellar and they sent the warnings to the wrong address, or not at all.<br /><br />This does apply to Dave's worry about the safety of your data, reliability of 'the cloud' and, in fact, of the world around us (I just lost a 2 Tb disk with backups before we left on vacation).<br /><br />This morning I was looking at a loss of 6 years of data, actually.<br /><br />So yes..... in the cloud... at a price... AND on a number of other places I'd say - like in my garden shed, my office, my holiday home and maybe at a good friend's place?Françoishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09911396367708453225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185297525546983459.post-32249635559846528992011-07-26T14:38:12.559-04:002011-07-26T14:38:12.559-04:00That is an interesting observation, David. Indeed,...That is an interesting observation, David. Indeed, it is incumbent on the purchaser of cloud services to ask the right questions such as how will my data be protected from loss due to errors, technical failures or theft? I actually address this in Friday's post Head in the Cloud - Part II.Captain Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04440863300015292162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185297525546983459.post-80738560420420509602011-07-26T12:41:17.567-04:002011-07-26T12:41:17.567-04:00And who's backing up the cloud? For all the ta...And who's backing up the cloud? For all the talk of "the cloud", it's still just an infrastructure shift, and all of the old principles still apply.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16903314963231448568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185297525546983459.post-73098351489948983982011-07-26T09:25:55.921-04:002011-07-26T09:25:55.921-04:00Very interesting point, Francois. There are those ...Very interesting point, Francois. There are those who embrace the "cloud" for exactly this reason. The future is multiple devices, particularly tablets and smart phones. Your applications and, more importantly, your data must reside in the cloud to be available across all the devices you frequently use.Captain Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04440863300015292162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4185297525546983459.post-5191875980530047662011-07-25T13:48:02.650-04:002011-07-25T13:48:02.650-04:00We started at about the same time I guess..... my ...We started at about the same time I guess..... my initial steps in the IT world were back in 1976.<br /><br />Incredible progress and miniaturization indeed, and in such a short time. I wonder of the earth's downfall will be equally logarithmic from here on. But hang on, that's a different discussion.<br /><br />There's a DOWNSIDE to all this storage. And I am painfully aware of it, now that my newly acquired and failed 2 Terabyte disk failed the other day.<br /><br />Not only did I lose a bunch of data that would have filled a major company in the old days, I also for the love of me NOT remember what exactly I put on it! Yes, part is duplicate backup of other Terabyte disks... but some of it was 'new'.<br /><br />Now, when I still owned a Commodore 64, I would WRITE, on real paper, what I had stored on the cassette tapes that I had filled with programs and data. Later on I would type it into a simple word processor and PRINT the lists.<br /><br />And over time more eloquent and automated systems evolved and appeared in IT Land.<br /><br />But for the love of it, I cannot envisage ANY system that my human mind can use, keeping track of all the stuff I keep on 6 computers and a grand total of 8,5 Terabytes.<br /><br />Talk about data overflow?Françoishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09911396367708453225noreply@blogger.com