Comments on: Danger in the Clouds http://blog.utest.com/danger-in-the-clouds/2009/10/ Software Testing Community Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stanton Champion http://blog.utest.com/danger-in-the-clouds/2009/10/comment-page-1/#comment-14549 Stanton Champion Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:37:14 +0000 http://blog.utest.com/?p=2091#comment-14549 Randall - Back in the day, the cloud storage feature was probably a cheap way to make the Sidekick a smarter phone than it actually was. As storage prices dropped, I suspect it became a handy way to keep customers locked-in to the phone. You could upgrade to a new Sidekick pretty easily, but buying a competitor would require you to start over. Randall – Back in the day, the cloud storage feature was probably a cheap way to make the Sidekick a smarter phone than it actually was.

As storage prices dropped, I suspect it became a handy way to keep customers locked-in to the phone. You could upgrade to a new Sidekick pretty easily, but buying a competitor would require you to start over.

]]> By: Randall Kasper http://blog.utest.com/danger-in-the-clouds/2009/10/comment-page-1/#comment-14548 Randall Kasper Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:44:18 +0000 http://blog.utest.com/?p=2091#comment-14548 Other best practices you have missed? How about not using a device that doesn't store anything locally?? Storage is so unbelievably inexpensive these days that there is no reason for a mobile device to not have the capability of storing all content on the device itself, or at the very least a large capacity memory card. Other than that, anyone not doing any kind of regular full backups is a fool (yes, even you Microsoft! Apparently they had a Hitachi SAN upgrade failure AND NO WORKING BACKUP OF THE DATA!!!) And never trust a single site for backup purposes, use a a desktop manager or intellisync application to back your stuff up onto your desktop/laptop. The level of Microsoft's latest fumble absolutely boggles my mind! Other best practices you have missed? How about not using a device that doesn’t store anything locally?? Storage is so unbelievably inexpensive these days that there is no reason for a mobile device to not have the capability of storing all content on the device itself, or at the very least a large capacity memory card.

Other than that, anyone not doing any kind of regular full backups is a fool (yes, even you Microsoft! Apparently they had a Hitachi SAN upgrade failure AND NO WORKING BACKUP OF THE DATA!!!) And never trust a single site for backup purposes, use a a desktop manager or intellisync application to back your stuff up onto your desktop/laptop.

The level of Microsoft’s latest fumble absolutely boggles my mind!

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