Can You Trust Google Apps With Your Business?
March 20th, 2010 by Evelyn Cheng
When the city of Los Angeles wanted to save money by eliminating its dedicated servers used for e-mail and collaboration programs, it didn’t look to Microsoft. It turned to Google. The search giant’s cloud-based Apps suite currently allows more than two million companies to leverage the Big G’s servers for Web-based e-mail and office productivity programs. Plus, this option costs only a fraction of traditional hosted solutions, and it doesn’t require a team of IT professionals to maintain. But do security concerns and Google’s much-publicized outages make this option too big of a risk?
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