Live in the Cloud, Die in the Cloud - Gmail outage: MS laughs all the way to the bank
Google's attempt to prove to the world that office apps inexpensively delivered from the cloud beats running PC-based clients got a big setback yesterday, when Gmail suffered a world-wide outage. The big winner: Microsoft, which is laughing all the way to the bank...
I've always said that computing in the cloud is dangerous and that it wasn't ready for prime time. Fellow technology professional, and WUGNET buddy Preston Gralla has an interesting article on this. click the "via" link to see the entire thing.
Bottom line (and I've said this NUMEROUS times) - until The Cloud is available everywhere, until Internet access is ubicquitous, computing in The Cloud, especially the Enterprise is risky.
