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Cloud Computing: Misunderstanding Data Availability

By On March 28, 2009 · 11 Comments · In Cloud

As is widely reported (here by TechCrunch), Carbonite, an online backup service,  have lost customer data.  Another one of a long line-up of data losses, (whether partial or complete – which has taken some companies down) this demonstrates that relying on someone else to keep your data [...]

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When Storage Planning Goes Bad

By On April 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

I was chatting to colleagues today and we were reflecting on an installation which had just completed and needed another additional storage tranche installed. Ironically, the initial disk installation on the new array hadn’t been fully implemented because the vendor “forgot” to install the full quota of cache in the array. Although this was a [...]

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Revenue and Customs in records blunder

By On November 21, 2007 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

The Revenue and Customs (IRS equivalent) in the UK have managed to lose two CDs containing the details of 25 million UK citizens (adults and children) who claim child benefit. For those who don’t know, Child Benefit is an allowance paid to all children in the UK irrespective of their parents’ income. This means the [...]

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