It's not been a great time for Cloud Computing. Online storage firm The Linkup managed to vanish up its own behind and took around 45 per cent of its customers' data with it. And there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments.

But was there? Was there really? Who uploads their only copies of crucial files to internet storage? I will tell you: no one. Even the lowest, partially-evolved invertebrates, who have yet to master the written word and the inclined plane – people who have never backed up a file in their life – even these idiots cannot possibly have lost any data to The Linkup's implosion. Because in order to do so, they would have to have uploaded files and then deleted the originals. That's not a sin of omission, you have to deliberately upload the file and then think "There, that's bound to be safe. I'll delete it from drive C now and use the space for something else."

Online storage gets used for two things: to allow you to access your files from any web-connected computer, and as a backup in case your house burns down. These two user profiles between them will have accounted for all of The Linkup's customers and in neither case would the original files have been erased.

There will have been some people, of course, whose hard disks crashed just after the The Linkup did. And if those people used online storage as their only backup, then they will have lost data. But they are small in number and low in intelligence; we need not concern ourselves with them, nor design online storage around their needs. Satisfactory local backup solutions already exist people! You just need to use them.