Runnning Your Business in the Cloud

Yesterday, the web giant, Google, had the misfortune of their Gmail (Google’s online email service) servers going down for approximately two hours.  Evidently, they had taken down a small percentage of their servers for routine maintenance, but the demand on the rest of the servers was too great, shutting down the service for a small subset of its approximately 149 million users.

I bring this up as a thought, as many business applications are moving to the web, rather than the traditional approach of having the business applications on the desktop or centralized server within the company.  Cloud computing is a trend that is increasing in popularity, but it hasn’t necessarily been perfected yet.  You will need to weigh your options and risks before making a decision. If things go awry, how accessible is your data?

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