Yale Delays Move To Gmail

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @08:13AM from the but-it's-in-the-cloud dept.

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.'"

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Re:Know what... by sopssa · 2010-03-31 08:17 · Score: 5, Informative

It's probably most of the countries. Google has their own highly-redundancy file system that spans thousands of servers and even different datacenters and locations. Even data that is deleted could remain in the system for 9+ months. I think it's highly possible all of the data travels around the world and is stored in several locations.