Ooma now brings to the home the data redundancy sophistication normally found in industrial-grade Internet telephony products.

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The essential strategy to mitigate risks of data loss and downtime is to add redundancy and reduce dependencies wherever possible.

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The tech community is split over AWS's troubles: Some commentators blame customers for failing to build more redundancy into their cloud products by spreading service over multiple data centers or regions.

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Amazon has redundancy at every level and the ability to spread your infrastructure across different data centers called availability zones.

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This builds redundancy into the system, meaning that if some fragments become corrupted, the data will not be lost.

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