USA Today reporting the Gmail crash on 25 February 2009
Computers will crash. The cloud, which runs on computers, will crash.
Once you realise this, planning for when the cloud does go down becomes just another way of ensuring business continuity. I’ve covered this in a post I wrote when WordPress.com went down.
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