Hailed, somewhat naively, as the future of computing, Cloud Computing has taken off apace. However with Amazon’s EC2 Cloud suffering a 36 hour outage recently, it has once again begged the question, is Cloud Computing the future, or the past?
Thousands of Google Email users were given a rude awakening this week when Google accidentally reset their accounts. Initially it was thought as many as 500,000 of Gmail users were affected, however Google later revised this to about 40,000 of its 200 million users. But how can you protect yourself against this?