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When the Cloud #FAILs: Is Your Data Safe?
- Your vote:
- Yes No
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- Description:
- My data is safe in the cloud right? WRONG! Don't think it could happen to you? Learn about how JournalSpace.com lost 5 YEARS worth of blogs, or how Magnolia.com lost everyone's bookmarks. Hear from someone who has been locked out of her Gmail and had her Facebook account hacked. The fact is, data is lost all the time. Find out how to protect yourself as everything moves to the cloud.
- Questions
Answered: -
- What data do I have in the cloud?
- Isn't my data safer in the cloud than on my hard drive?
- How did JournalSpace lose 5 years worth of blogs?
- How did Magnolia lose everyone's bookmarks?
- How did Gmail go down and lock people out of their email?
- How did Amazon S3 and SQS go down for a whole day?
- How did Rackspace lose power at a whole data center for hours?
- Should I read privacy policies? What's the risk?
- Should I try to avoid storing data in the cloud?
- How can I protect the data that I have in the cloud?
- Level:
- Advanced
- Category:
- Back-End Programming / Databases, Cloud Storage / Delivery, History of Technology, Information Architecture, New Technology / Next Generation
- Type:
- Solo
- Event:
- Interactive 2010
Developed for SXSW by Lindsey Simon