News - WD My Cloud service outage took over a week to fix

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Problem with WD2Go service meant users couldn't remotely access their data for days.

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And that nicely illustrates one of the issues with "cloud" storage and/or services .... namely, it can be taken down, deliberately or otherwise, with no notice, for indetermjnate periods, or possibly permanently.

At least on this occasion it was only the remote connection capability that was lost. But had it been cloud-stored data that was inaccessible, it could have been very inconvenient, or damaging, especially for business users.