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  • Yale University’s move to Gmail postponed

    Posted on April 1, 2010 at 08:15 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    I was a bit startled to learn that Yale University was making the switch to Gmail for all of its internal email. I was even  more surprised to learn that the changeover has been put on hold.

    This from the Yale Daily News:

    …concerns about the switch to Gmail 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.

    Google stores every piece of data in three centers randomly chosen from the many it operates worldwide in order to guard the company’s ability to recover lost information — but that also makes the data subject to the vagaries of foreign laws and governments… Google was not willing to provide ITS with a list of countries to which the University’s data could be sent, but only a list of about 15 countries to which the data would not be sent.

    I wonder if the Chinese attack weighed heavily on some Yalies’ minds?

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