Some companies hesitate to trust Software as a Service products. One reason is stability, because they don't know anything about the vendor's data center. An SaaS vendor I don't know, Inkling, made news by declaring they trust a specialized hosting vendor to, essentially, run their entire company.
I'm starting to see this more often. Online backup vendors sometimes admit they're using the S3 storage services foundation provided by Amazon. That;s outsourcing your company. That's also leveraging the huge development made by Amazon to your advantage.
Google also provides a variety of outsourcing service for companies, if you look at it that way. What is Google Calendar if not outsourcing? Google Mail? Competing companies can't hope to match the investments made by Amazon and Google in their data centers, but they can leverage those outsourced data centers to provide products Amazon and Google haven't considered.
Trust is a difficult concept for some people, and worry a constant companion. However, worrying about the stability of online service providers, and Software as a Service companies, shouldn't take much of your time. Their uptime numbers beat almost everyone, including, almost certainly, your own servers.
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