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back to article You've heard of 'trust but verify', right? Well, remember 'trust but protect' when mulling building a hybrid cloud

Trust the hybrid cloud, service providers tell us – they are, apparently, the experts. But when outages occur, and when data or virtual instances are lost or become unavailable, the impact is profound. Few businesses can trade for any length of time without access to their data or infrastructure. Trust the hybrid cloud? Trust …

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  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    "SSDs [..] at least will never physically seize up like a HDD"

    Wrong. I have personally witnessed 2 SSDs just die from one minute to the next. Never mine, thankfully, but in both occasions there was no warning : Windows just bluescreened and, on reboot, the disk was dead as a doorknob.

    No moving parts does not mean it will work forever.

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      Re: "SSDs [..] at least will never physically seize up like a HDD"

      OK, but that could also be Windows :p

      /me tiptoes away quickly before the downvotes hit :)

      (joking aside: I agree)

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    I'm not a fan of de-duplication that I do not explicitly control.

    Sometimes there are reasons I made a second copy of a file.

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