"I am a apple fan, but you can be assured that I will NOT be using iCloud for this very reason. Always have a back up and NEVER rely on cyber space."
"Moral of the storyis GET YOUR HEAD AND EVERYTHING ELSE OUT OPF THE CLOUD(S)"
"Like others on here, I feel that the rush to the "latest and greatest" IT thing of the cloud has serious implications - when you are not in direct possession or responsibility of your data, and something happens to it, what do you do?"
"This is why cloud computing is destined to fail. 'Cloud Shocks' like this will force people to rethink the whole concept and write cloud computing off as just a 'fad'. This isn't the first cloud shock and will not be the last."
The company in the article wasn't even a cloud provider...and further more, if they were a cloud provider they would have more chance of getting their data back. Some people just don't know the difference between the internet and cloud computing..