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February 25, 2009
GMail cloud more solid than Exchange Server
We couldn't help but wonder how the decision-makers at the University of Adelaide felt just after they announced that they'd signed 16,000 students up to GMail Inboxes. The timing turned out to be terrible.
It was a matter of hours before GMail went blank for two and a half hours [to say nothing of being attacked by a Google Talk phishing scam] and the Financial TImes and at least one blogger got out the egg-beater and suggested that bits of the Cloud were falling on their heads.
As a couple of wiser heads commented on ITWire, prolonged outages are scarcely rare events with Microsoft Exchange Server, despite all those vast sums of money that are poured into buying licences and distributing ever more servers.
As more businesses catch on to the advantages and savings in having profoundly more experienced operators like FastMail managing their Inboxes, we'll see email in the cloud becoming a fact of life.
It will save heaps of cash, and it will be more reliable, not less. Although we prefer FastMail, and in particular - in the case of the spouse's small enterprise - its new business product, we still use GMail as a backup to the principal accounts, and continue to be impressed by it.
Posted by cw at February 25, 2009 06:14 PM
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