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James 'Jimmy' Blake is the Chief Security Officer for Mimecast,  a leading cloud services vendor based in London.  James has overall responsibility for risk management and business continuity for the organisation's internal IT infrastructure and service delivery platforms across four continents and within global partners such as Cable & Wireless and Iron Mountain.

He holds a PhD in Information Security Management and is a Certified Information Security Systems Professional. James has nearly two decades of commercial experience in information security, business continuity and storage.

James has a love of loud Harley Davidson motorcycles, real ale, role playing games and even louder heavy metal.  He lives in rural Kent with his partner, Sonia, and stepson, Rafael.

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Wednesday
14Oct2009

Microsoft giving cloud computing resilience a bad name

It seems that Microsoft decided to upgrade the Storage Area Network that supports the Danger platform providing the data to the SideKick smartphone.... without having any form of backup.

The architecture of the SideKick keeps all data in the cloud, the content of the phone is lost when it is powered down.  When you're planning an upgrade to a platform where absolutely nothing is stored on the phone - contacts, messages and photos - you'd think you would operate a second data centre?

T-Mobile , who operates the SideKick in the US, has already pulled sales of the SideKick in light of the outage.

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