SaaS downtime: ISVs will always take the blame January 7th 2008

ISVs must isolate their applications from today’s SaaS platforms to benefit from the improved SaaS platforms expected in the future.

Data storage is very reliable, but still has unexpected and catastrophic failures. That’s why you backup your data. You must plan for when things go wrong. It’ll almost certainly not go wrong in the way you expected, but it will go wrong — sooner or later.

I’ve seen my fair share of data disasters over the years so I use a variety of media and archive cycles for local backups. For offsite backups I use Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk is a remote storage solution built on the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for data storage and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for block-level file updates and other services.

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