Comments on: What Small Businesses Can Learn From Google Apps Recent Troubles http://www.watchingthenet.com/lessons-learn-from-googleapps-troubles.html Computer - Internet - Technology Tips And Tutorials Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Watching The Net http://www.watchingthenet.com/lessons-learn-from-googleapps-troubles.html#comment-37 Watching The Net Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:55:20 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/lessons-learn-from-googleapps-troubles.html#comment-37 Dave, you hit the nail on the head "Once the service becomes more solid and security is proven" If a business fully understands the risks and has a plan in place, when outages occurs, then using ASP providers makes sense. Core business applications such as email are critical to many businesses and an outage with no redundancy or a better notification system in place is going to scare away using the ASP model for many business that need it the most Dave, you hit the nail on the head "Once the service becomes more solid and security is proven"

If a business fully understands the risks and has a plan in place, when outages occurs, then using ASP providers makes sense. Core business applications such as email are critical to many businesses and an outage with no redundancy or a better notification system in place is going to scare away using the ASP model for many business that need it the most

]]> By: Dave http://www.watchingthenet.com/lessons-learn-from-googleapps-troubles.html#comment-36 Dave Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:52:32 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/lessons-learn-from-googleapps-troubles.html#comment-36 How can an average under-1000-employee company find better IT on par with Google's IT people? You will pay much more than subscribing to Google. Once the service becomes more solid and security is proven, the choice will be irresistible. (I use Google as an example--many companies are in this online app field.) If your job today involves managing various email and web servers and user PCs, you really need to build up some other skills. Not all IT will go away, but a lot of the common infrastructure will. How can an average under-1000-employee company find better IT on par with Google's IT people? You will pay much more than subscribing to Google. Once the service becomes more solid and security is proven, the choice will be irresistible. (I use Google as an example–many companies are in this online app field.)

If your job today involves managing various email and web servers and user PCs, you really need to build up some other skills. Not all IT will go away, but a lot of the common infrastructure will.

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