In an ar- ticle called "Computing in the Clouds; Powerful Services and Applications Are Being Integrated and Packaged on the Web in What the Industry Now Calls 'Cloud Computing,'" writer Aaron Weiss explains that this preferred setup has been described as self-healing; if one server malfunctions, there are plenty of others to pick up its work. Gmail offers business email services such as advanced filters to block spam, 25GB of storage per user, quick retrieval of archived emails using Google search technology, custom inbound and outbound security policies, and the ability to keep a corporate record of all emails. Because Gmail is a web-hosted application, email can be retrieved anywhere the internet is available, just like Google Docs and Google Calendar.
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