Failure A Sidekick For Cloud Computing

Users of T-Mobile USA's Sidekick handsets have been warned that many will have lost data stored remotely. Data for subscribers is stored on a server run by Danger, a unit of Microsoft, acquired in 2008. The failure of the server is embarrassing for all the companies involved as there is increasing interest in remote storage as an economic means of data backup. As US subscribers increasingly use their mobile phones as on-the-go computer substitutes, the server failure will call into question the wisdom of relying on remote storage.

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