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It's always interesting watching startups learn the lessons that thousands of enterprise learned along the way. "Why would you ever want offline tapes sitting
by tw04 9y ago
It's always interesting watching startups learn the lessons that thousands of enterprise learned along the way. "Why would you ever want offline tapes sitting in iron mountain, how inefficient".
Nothing is foolproof, but anytime you've got constant network access to every last copy of your data, you're begging to lose it. It's the reason why people who think one copy (redundantly dispersed or not) in AWS S3 is sufficient scares me to death. Is it unlikely Amazon would get hacked and have the entire thing blown up? Sure... but if we go to war with China I wouldn't want to bet my company on it.
- nulagrithom 9y agoIf we go to war with China I don't think you or anyone else will care much about your company. I know you meant it as an example, but this sort of extreme attitude towards security is just another footgun.
- kstrauser 9y ago> If we go to war with China I don't think you or anyone else will care much about your company. Why? We went to war with Europe and Asia a few times and businesses kept chugging along here in the states.
- sabujp 9y agothat was before people had lots of nukes
- tw04 9y agoYou're assuming war will involve armed conflict from the start. If we go to war with China that will be the end of the war.
- DashRattlesnake 9y ago> If we go to war with China I don't think you or anyone else will care much about your company. Probably not in the immediate aftermath, but someone might decades later, if the company actually does something valuable.
- scott_karana 9y agoHeck, it doesn't even have to be Iron Mountain if your data size isn't too big! Just rotating tapes to a safety deposit box at your local bank every week will do a damned good job.