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The other day I read the stunning declaration by a 'security expert' that the possibility of losing your data in the cloud is 'near inconceivable'. Apparently he made the statement in a BBC Newsbeat interview and he went on to say that the 'likelihood of a crash is extremely low'. Whilst I would agree with the second statement (as most data-centres fall over rather infrequently - albeit 'far too frequently' equals 'once' for most owner/operators) he went on to describe the cloud as 'not one single system reliant on one single connection'. Now I know we can argue for hours about what the cloud is and isn't but at the end of the line, somewhere, is a single data-centre with your data in it. Unless you pay 'twice' for two different cloud services and you were not unlucky enough to have your data stored twice in the same building! So a fire, flood, earthquake, tsunami, air-crash or plague of locusts etc will definitely risk lose your data - but what his 'angle' was I still cant work out. Maybe he thinks that the 'cloud' is truly cumulus?