Gmail Outage: Will enterprises opt out of cloud computing?

As Cloud computing is relatively new arch. it is bound to have issues. Buts lets accept the fact that nothing can be perfect and issues/bugs will keep appearing no matter what. Even the greatest softwares in the world have bugs and thats how new versions are released. This is a fact that cannot be denied. And as for google opting out of cloud computing is not even a debate topic - they will better it further.

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For sure such failures must be avoided, however such failure help us to understand the issue & make the technology better

this ia hard to believe. companies could have discussed much more in the past (when outages were much more and longer (compared to clouds))

A Technology that is evolving is bound to have some hichups and over a period get to be more stable.

While it is debatable whether cloud computing as a technology is attractive, outage is just one of the risks that it is prone to. That by itself cannot make a case for cloud computing to be abandoned

We need CLOUDS over (ndia too!! Barso re megha.... Jokes apart, I agree with what Aditya, Sarpan and Garmauf have commented!! :))

For every problem there is a solution, so due to this every service provider will become more aleart and do there best at service level

Outage is bad but at times you have to live with it as a Architect/Manager one can have plans to minmize the outage risks in the applications however 100% uptime is a tough task.

Any ways cloud computing minimize the outage risk so if you compare data of self hosted apps vs apps hosted on cloud .... Cloud will be a better option

the decision is very easy for everybody. simply compare the number and duration of outages under cloud computing with your previous environment. i've been doing this for more than three years now. the comparison i mean. 

if the above isn't clear enough, let me re-phrase: i've been using the cloud intensively for more than three years. i experienced much less outages an these lasted much much shorter. 

Exactly! the comparison obviously will better the decision. Moreover, provisioning for the cloud is a specialization, these are just preliminary teething problems. Over the peiod of time these issues will disappear.

I don't think this outage wil impact scope of cloud computing. These thing occurs once in a while and every service providers have contingency plan to tackle these kind of issues. 

Cloud computing is a big thing it can't be impacted by seldom one outage, yes it make alert to service providers for future events.