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    "title": "Blogger outage makes case against cloud-only",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this week, Google rolled out a maintenance release for its Blogger service. Something went terribly wrong, and its Blogger customers have been locked out of their accounts for more than a day. Google\u00e2\u0080\u0099s engineers have been frantically working to restore service ever since, although they haven\u00e2\u0080\u0099t shared any details about the problem.</p>\n<p>...</p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s nearly 48 hours of downtime, and counting. Overnight updates promise \u00e2\u0080\u009cWe\u00e2\u0080\u0099re making progress\u00e2\u0080\u009d and \u00e2\u0080\u009cWe expect everything to be back to normal soon.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>...</p>\n<p>Google has owned and operated Blogger since 2003. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not like they\u00e2\u0080\u0099re still trying to figure out how to integrate the service into their operation. If it can happen at Blogger, why can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t it happen with another Google service?</p>\n<p>...</p>\n<p>This, to me, is the strongest possible argument against putting everything you own in the cloud. If your data matters, you need a hybrid strategy, with local storage and local content creation and editing tools. If your local storage fails, you can grab what you need from the cloud. If your cloud service fails, you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve still got it locally. But if you rely just on the cloud, you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re vulnerable to exactly this sort of failure.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/googles-blogger-outage-makes-the-case-against-a-cloud-only-strategy/3300\">Google's Blogger outage makes the case against a cloud-only strategy | ZDNet</a></em>.</p>\n"
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