There is strong evidence to the contrary: http://www.ironmountain.com http://www.salesforce.com http://www.neospire.net http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/saas/default.mspx
Andrew Baudouin wrote: > Businesses will not consider hosting their proprietary documents on > other people's machines, no matter whether "are they security > experts?" is a sane argument > > On Jan 29, 2008 2:49 PM, Petri Laihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: >>> Gmail option is interesting.... I may need to check that one out as >>> well.... Especially if it allows to use some other "sender" address >>> than @gmail.com <http://gmail.com>. I was investigating at some point >>> last year perhaps >>> having managed mail service system, but did not find any good options >>> for it. Gmail does not support IMAP and alone my mailbox size is about >>> 4.5Gb. (M$ outslurp would die and loose all of it with less than quarter >>> of that....) >>> >> Gmail does allow you to a custom "From:" address after you authenticate >> the email address. Its a simple process but you do have some issues with >> mail servers looking for a reverse DNS entry and your email could end up >> in the recipients spam box. >> Gmail now supports IMAP. I think they rolled out this feature couple of >> months ago. >> >> Karthik >> > Ha! More interesting information.... > I will take another look at Google mail stuff..... > Thanks.... > > Now, Does anyone know a good reason not to look into google > provided services? > Some of my concerns would be: > - my stuff would be indexed on the server other than my own, who > will have access to this data? > - same above concern, if I choose to use their web apps (word > processing etc....) > - While I'm not a security expert, Is my data safer on my own > server than on google servers? > - is google becoming a M$ like bully while they grow .... > - anything else? > > > Petri > >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
