Tuesday's Gmail outage was not only an inconvenience it calls into question--yet again--the feasibility of present day cloud computing. One popular prediction is that future computers won't need huge hard drives because all our applications and personal data (photos, videos, documents and e-mail) will exist on remote servers on the Internet (otherwise known as "cloud computing").
But how viable is this Utopian computing future when the accessibility of your files is dependent on forces beyond your control?
More: http://pcworld.com/article/171296/
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But how viable is this Utopian computing future when the accessibility of your files is dependent on forces beyond your control?
More: http://pcworld.com/article/171296/
