>And Google's downtime still compares quite favorably to all but the largest,
>most robust, and most complex data centers - so still feel comfortable about
>placing your data and services inside the firewall?


SUBSTANTIALLY more comfortable.  The argument repeatedly made about SaaS and
'the ubiquitous cloud' is that you can get to it from anywhere without
having to be concerned about backups, etc because there are multiple
instances (mirrors) of it everywhere and when (on the rare occasion) one
goes down, they simply switch to another... well, that didn't happen in
February, and it didn't happen now either.   And in this latest instance
there was an 3-1/2 hour outage.

DO I care that I couldn't access my G-Mail?  Nope... Did it impact my
ability to gain access to any of MY data??  Nope... and it won't either.  I
still say this whole "deal" is NOT ready for prime time yet.

Larry
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