Nokia OVI Crash Illustrates Potential Danger of Cloud Computing
Nokia OVI Crash Illustrates Potential Danger of Cloud Computing
Posted 02/13/2009 at 7:16am
| by Paul Lilly
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There's been a major push towards cloud computing during the past several months, so much so that IBM saw fit to invest $300 million upgrading 13 data centers with a cloud computing infrastructure. Dell even tried to (unsuccessfully) patent the term in anticipation of the importance the concept will play in the coming years. But are we ready to live in the cloud?
Apparently Nokia isn't, who managed to lose a full 3 weeks of user data on its Ovi service. Any updates made to profiles, images uploaded, and friendships added since January 23 have been wiped out and it doesn't appear any of that data wll be coming back.
Nokia blames the oopsy-daisy moment on a cooler that gave up the ghost in its hosting center, which caused a service interruption for several hours. Nokia's database was hit, and even though the company had been making regular backups, Nokia says its unlikely it will be able to restore the lost information.
To be fair, we should point out that Contacts on Ovi is a beta service, and as such, end users shouldn't be caught too off guard when problems occur. It just happens that in this case, the data loss demonstrates a potential danger of cloud computing.
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Keith E. Whisman
February 14, 2009 at 4:36am
See I told you guys that Cloud computing sucks. If this were your computer you could get on another computer or reboot the one your on and log back in. Even use system restore to get your computer back up and running. But when the cloud crashes and turns into fog then you SOL because you rely on someone else when you should only ever rely on yourself. Basically I don't like Cloud Computing because you have to trust someone else and I just don't trust anyone.
I Jedi
February 13, 2009 at 6:59pm
Never store online data that is senstive and can't be replaced easily or at all. If you absolutely must, make sure your cloud computing account is both secured and the company has a good privacy standing... Oh, and be sure to keep another backup on your computer's HDD or back it up on a flashdrive/disk.
I for one will never use cloud computing for anything else but storing non-senstive data on it. E.g. Music files, maybe some documents that don't matter, but that's about it. I'm not too hot on cloud computing. I know, though, that with the wide spread adoption of cloud computing within the next few years, I'll inevitably be drawn to it somehow.
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