Cloud computing involves storing your applications and even data on the Internet cloud. Gmail is an example. Both the mail application and your emails are stored on Google's servers.
The cloud is also not immune to disasters and there have been well publicized cases of cloud disasters. Clients are naturally hesitant to entrust their data to cloud service providers, even though data can fail on local servers and cause a disaster.
To reassure such clients, Google elaborated on the disaster recovery and data backup capabilities of Google Apps cloud computing platform. Google replicates all data in almost real time to multiple servers and data centers spread all over the globe.
Google highlighted the fact that it offers disaster recovery and data backup free to paying customers of Google Apps that include Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Groups, Google Sites and Google Video.
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