Although the T-Mobile Sidekick data disaster caused much gnashing of teeth among the device’s users this week, the incident might not represent as dark a blotch on the concept of cloud computing as it may seem. Sidekick users lost all their data, which is stored on the infrastructure of Danger, the company that developed the Sidekick and is now owned by Microsoft. Microsoft later claimed it managed to recover most of the lost data, and it announced plans to restore it soon.
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Analyst: Don't Blame the Sidekick Mess on the Cloud
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 16, 2009 03:21 PMAlthough the T-Mobile Sidekick data disaster caused much gnashing of teeth among the device’s users this week, the incident might not represent as dark a blotch on the concept of cloud computing as it may seem. Sidekick users lost all their data, which is stored on the infrastructure of Danger, the company that developed the Sidekick and is now owned by Microsoft. Microsoft later claimed it managed to recover most of the lost data, and it announced plans to restore it soon.