Yale Delays Move To Gmail

Mortimer.CA writes "The Yale Daily News is reporting that the move to Gmail has been postponed. After further consultations with faculty and staff, the concerns raised 'fell into three main categories: problems with "cloud computing" (the transfer of information between virtual servers on the Internet), technological risks and downsides, and ideological issues.' In the latter category, 'Google was not willing to provide ITS with a list of countries to which the University's data could be sent [i.e., replicated], but only a list of about 15 countries to which the data would not be sent.'"

Comments

Easy solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Google a list of countries... remove those 15, and there you go.

Re:Easy solution

[BarryJacobsen]

I mean you really think they keep a server in the Vatican or Swaziland?

Of course not! Those two were on the list :P

Re:Easy solution

[pushing-robot]

Google definitely doesn't run servers in catacombs deep beneath the Vatican. The rumors are completely false that they could have a distributed storage system hidden in the endless mists of Angel Falls. And it would be utterly absurd to think they maintain a datacenter at the L2 point 1.1 million kilometers beyond the Moon.

Re:Easy solution

[cmiller173]

...yet.

Re:Easy solution

[Anonymous Coward]

That's because your server is in Russia. They heard you could see it from the governor's home.

Re:RAID

[pushing-robot]

Only half the bits are on one server vs. another

While this is of course theoretical, if you put all the "zero" bits on one server and the "one" bits on another, you could also achieve fantastic compression ratios.

Come to think of it, this gives me a great idea for a defragmentation program...

Re:Know what...

[miffo.swe]

"10 USD/mailbox/mth for exchange hosting"

And this is different from Google how? Id much rather put my security in the hands of the best software company in the world with a stunning track record for security.