What I meant of "take care of all worries" is, the user need not to worry about expanding the space requirement, powering the disk devices, replicating the data to different location etc., etc.,.
Any way, if a user backups his data locally means, he can only setup one or atmost couple of data centers. In cloud service, they will take care of keeping the near-real time backup of user data to different location. Whenever a disaster/corruption happens, then the latest backup copy from another location will be retrieved and the storage will be up by less down time. -- Aravind Vembu Technologies On Dec 1, 11:20 pm, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > At 5:32 PM +0000 12/1/2011, Martin N wrote: > > >>As I pointed out in the other fork of this thread... You CANNOT > >>expect the cloud service provider to "take care of all worries". > >>In fact, all the providers are quite careful in their Terms of > >>Service to NOT accept any responsibility for your data in any way. > >>They even consider their internal infrastructure to be confidential > >>-- so you, the customer, have no way of knowing what breed of > >>gerbils they use to keep their wheels running! > > >>Unless you know of some service that's different? > > >here has been some discuss in the UK magazine PCPro about the > >importance of knowing > >which country the servers of a cloud provider are present. > > >Microsofts cloud service does not specify where the data resides and > >so there is concern that > >the American government can have access to your data under the "patriot act" > > oOo. yea. That's a whole other ball of wax! Many services (eg: > Dropbox, iCloud) are backed by the likes of Amazon's S3 cloud, and > MS' cloud - which have data centers all over the world. Donno if you > can specify where your data is bucketed. Have to look at that! :\ > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
