Can you trust your business to Google's cloud?

[nreece]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9989019-93.html?hhTest=1&tag=nefd.top

[pg]

Probably more than you can trust it to your own IT dept.

[thwarted → pg]

In a startup, isn't "IT dept" just another name for "technical co-founder"?

[eugenejen → thwarted]

Well, then the technical co-founder will spend tons of time doing things such as setting up emails, scanning viruses, looking for intruders to servers, setting up quickbooks. Then you lose man-hours that should be dedicated to your main product/services.

I know this because I have been working for 6 startups for 10 years. This is a very common pattern that leads to failure.

[thwarted → eugenejen]

That's true, but I interpreted the word "trust" in terms of capability, not availability.