Techrepublic blogger on security risks of cloud computing.

By Andy Moon on Techrepublic.com

The recent Gmail outage clearly highlights one of the major problems with cloud computing. If a service in the cloud becomes unavailable, it can affect thousands or tens of thousands of users rather than the far smaller number of users affected if a single company’s servers go down. Still, as the cloud companies start getting to economies of scale, reliability is likely to increase.

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