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Put everything in the cloud, what could possibly go wrong?! Well, how about six months of information suddenly going missing?
Google is advising customers to DO NOTHING to try to get your data back, let their engineers investigate the situation and find a solution.
Stuff like this happens, most likely a configuration change went live and had unforeseen repercussions.
I will once again remind people that all the cloud is is Someone Else's Servers On The Other Side Of The Internet. This is what the internet has been FOREVER, it's just marketing buzz, a convenient label.
I should dig up and post an article about a large company that decided to re-home servers FROM the cloud. That is, to buy big, beefy servers and run them themselves to save cloud hosting charges. They estimated it would save them, IIRC, over a million dollars a year. And they recovered that amount of money in about 3 or 4 months.
I personally would be reluctant to run my business through the cloud if it were of any size, there are too many risks including a backhoe eating your internet connection shutting your business down for a few days.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_disappearing/
https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/11/27/1333218/google-drive-misplaces-months-worth-of-customer-files
Google is advising customers to DO NOTHING to try to get your data back, let their engineers investigate the situation and find a solution.
Stuff like this happens, most likely a configuration change went live and had unforeseen repercussions.
I will once again remind people that all the cloud is is Someone Else's Servers On The Other Side Of The Internet. This is what the internet has been FOREVER, it's just marketing buzz, a convenient label.
I should dig up and post an article about a large company that decided to re-home servers FROM the cloud. That is, to buy big, beefy servers and run them themselves to save cloud hosting charges. They estimated it would save them, IIRC, over a million dollars a year. And they recovered that amount of money in about 3 or 4 months.
I personally would be reluctant to run my business through the cloud if it were of any size, there are too many risks including a backhoe eating your internet connection shutting your business down for a few days.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_disappearing/
https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/11/27/1333218/google-drive-misplaces-months-worth-of-customer-files
