The big story in Tech today is that several of T-Mobile’s Sidekick owners are without their contacts, to-do-lists and calendars today after a massive server fail.

According to T-Mobile, the loss is a result of a server failure at Microsoft. In 2008, Microsoft acquired start-up company Danger which hosts all of the Sidekick’s data.

While the Sidekick hasn’t achieved iPhone or Blackberry status, the phone was extremely popular in early 2000 and was one of the first phones to grab the younger demographic with text and Internet packages built in to the phone package.

A big part of the story today has centered around how this could happen, but I have a different question. What does this say about cloud computing?

With Google, Microsoft and others rumored to be working on an operating system which operates in a “cloud,” what kind of faith can users have in companies which can’t even successfully host cell phone data?

This is a very scary question and one that may challenge the idea that we are ready for such a move.
To quote a somewhat censored favorite saying of mine, “stuff still happens.”

So if your company isn’t backing up its data or isn’t using a reputable Blackberry hosting provider, what will happen when you lose all your data.
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