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GMail Outage Gives Some Second Thoughts

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The other day I was thinking how GMail hasn't had any real problems lately. A day later and the popular web app was outage galore. As we shift more towards the clouds and remote hosting, we will need multiple backup options should one of these services fail.

This latest outage --Gmail's last large-scale failure didn't garner as many headlines because it happened when most folks were asleep-- raises valid questions about the viability of cloud computing, and the vulnerabilities we take on as we shift applications and data from their traditional homes on client PCs and servers to unseen resources on the Web.

Link: www.betanews.com

I'm really not a fan of cloud computing. The idea that we use a client to connect to the server that has all of our data seems like a step backwards. It's like we're back in the days of terminals, except with pretty pictures to click on instead of typing everything out.

It certainly makes it easier for The Powers That Be to access our data, though.

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