Comments on: Sun, Oracle save Microsoft’s Pink after Danger data disaster

By: Why Apple’s iPhone is still not coming to Verizon — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:26:05 +0000

[...] Microsoft’s Danger SideKick data loss casts dark on cloud computing Microsoft’s Pink/Danger backup problem blamed on Roz Ho Sun, Oracle save Microsoft’s Pink after Danger data disaster [...]

By: John Dvorak reverses entire career, says Microsoft should copy Apple — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:48:16 +0000

[...] Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft’s Windows Phone Microsoft’s Pink/Danger backup problem blamed on Roz Ho Sun, Oracle save Microsoft’s Pink after Danger data disaster [...]

By: TimmyDax

TimmyDax — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:19:24 +0000

“93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or longer due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of business that found themselves without data management for this same time
period filed for bankruptcy immediately.” (Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:41:20 +0000

Heh. Andrew Thomas says that A round of applause is in order for Microsoft support folks for recovering the Sidekick data, and he's blaming everyone except Microsoft for the problem. Andrew is consistent - he should work for Gartner.

By: SunnyGuy53

SunnyGuy53 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:32:04 +0000

I think Microsoft is closer to “nine fives” on their server availability.

Sunny Guy

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Sun, Oracle, and Microsoft Roles | Boycott Novell — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:22:51 +0000

[...] Roughly Drafted, which is another independent thinker like Groklaw, argues that Sun and Oracle actually saved Microsoft amid the Danger disaster, not caused it any trouble. From the analysis: [...]

By: db5

db5 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:41:33 +0000

Normally I’d gloat with you, but I had the same thing happen to me a few days ago- during a newly initiated time machine backup, OS X froze and I was presented with a disk03s error. I was able to save the data off the disk, but with all of the orphaned folders, it takes FOREVER to reconstruct a drive.

For me, it was just an unfortunate coincidence. For MS, however, it was playing with fire to the tune of million$.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:56:04 +0000

Microsoft has advertised “five nines” availability for its own servers, which means 99.999% uptime, a standard that only allows for 5.26 minutes of unscheduled downtime within a year.

Now I could see you getting that level of uptime with OS2, OSX, BSD, Solaris, or Linux. Getting that much up time with Windows would seem totally impossible to me. Unless the server wasn’t running anything (For those who haven’t suffered the joys of administering a Windows Server with Exchange installed, you don’t know what you are missing, and you don’t want to know).

By: Berend Schotanus

Berend Schotanus — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:05:08 +0000

Apart from the obvious management blunders at Microsoft and the obligate call for making back-ups I think incident is also reason for reconsideration of the centralized “one-truth” data organization model.

When data quantities are becoming so vast that it takes “days” to make a back-up this should raise the question whether the working model is still feasible. Even when a healthy back-up had been in place it would have taken longer than five minutes to get the data back in place. And that’s a problem that existed before Microsoft took over.