How to Plan for Cloud Storage Failures

In light of the recent Amazon cloud services outage that knocked out several popular Websites, PC World offers advice on planning for failures. Although the cloud offers many advantages, such as syncing data across multiple machines and platforms, collaboration among multiple users, and easy to use off-site backups, a good cloud plan should include provisions for failure, including plans B and C, and plenty of backups.

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"Syncplicty is a more robust tool that runs on both Macs and Windows PCs, as well as syncing with file servers and Google Docs. There are also iPhone and Android apps available for data access from smartphones. Syncplicity has more tools for multi-user and collaborative environments also. They store your data centrally on their servers, in addition to the local copies on your machine, making for a decent backup system when the cloud is up.”

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