Cloud bubble is still up in the air..... will it POP?

Wednesday, September 2. 2009

Cloud bubble is still up in the air..... will it POP?

From the mining irony dept......

Article in TCUK yesterday arguing the Business is heading into the Clouds.

In their poll of 1,400 Microsoft customers, all small businesses in the UK, they found that 13% of them intend to switch to Google Apps within 12 months while 22% are “undecided”. In other words a healthy number are either switching or probably poised to switch. Of the remaining, 36% were Not Switching and 29% were “Not aware” of Google Apps.

Funny thing is, it happens on a day that the GoogleCloud has a major outage - definitely not good for the blood pressure. Unless of course you had your data on your own systems, in which case you were not impacted, as Neville Hobson notes.

I neither noticed nor experienced any interruption in email. At all. Why? Because I don’t do my email via the web interface, the browser. Instead, I bring in all email from all the accounts I use into Outlook 2007 via POP.

And POP (as well as IMAP) access was unaffected by yesterday’s outage.

There is a lesson there somewhere....the Cloud bubble will POP

Posted by Alan Patrick in Web Services / Cloud Computing at 08:03 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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