If you use the cloud for business purposes you should make sure you have a service level agreement with the provider that defines their responsibilities for backing up, restoring after a failure, disaster recovery and business continuity, withi independent evidence at least annually that they have carried out the appropriate tests, and put in action plans for fixing any issues. There are all sorts of traps waiting for people who bet their business on supposedly free cloud services.
If you decide to look into it again for your business Ican help you ask the right questions, and evaluate the answers. I've done it a lot for various employers. B On 31 Mar 2013, at 22:40, "Steve Cottrell" <co...@seeingeye.tv> wrote: > On 31/3/13, Christine Aguila, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> Well, the syncing is nice when the cloud is working. My iCloud space >> has recently gone wonky and the iCloud engineers are supposedly working >> on it right now. I'm supposed to get a call from Apple in a few hours. >> Hopefully, this will be fixed. Not sure why after two years owning the >> iPad my cloud space stopped working. Christine > > Interesting. > > Before Apple called it iCloud, in the first iPhone they had a cloud- > syncing service (effectively mac.com and it cost money to use) and I > used it to begin with. After a week or so there was a well-publicised > outage at Apple and quite a few iPhone users suddenly found all their > contacts vanished! I have about 300 - about half business contacts > ando-called free cloud services. > half personal. Of course, with the cloud, there was no need to back up > locally, and I hadn't. My bad. > > A day or two later the contacts reappeared and all was well. At that > point I changed my syncing routine to 'back up locally to this computer' > and synced to my Mac. I have never since used the cloud to back up > anything. I guess once bitten... > > The more and more that the personal computing industry pushes cloud > storage, the more and more I decided not to take part. > > .02 > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, > || (O) | Web Video Producion > ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
