Google Mail outage
By Jude Insley, Thursday, 26th February 2009
As half the world must be aware, Google had some serious problems with it's Google Mail service yesterday (25th Feb). In the past this wouldn't have been a huge issue at Wide Area as most people were only using it for personal mail. However, we took a decision at the end of last year to migrate all of our corporate mail to Google Apps as it was easier to maintain and allowed us access to Google Docs, Google Calendar, et al.
Having shared calendars via Google Apps has been a boon - we weren't using MS Exchange previously so sharing calendars wasn't easy. Now everyone in our company can see all the meetings planned and where everyone is going to be.
Except when Google suffers a 4 hour outage in it's service. Hmm. At least they now have a status page for us all to keep an eye on. (Hopefully that won't go down at the same time!)
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James C
Friday 6th March 2009
If they have another 4 hour outage this year, I'd be asking for my money back given their 99.9% uptime guarantee (assuming you're using the Premier Edition). :-)
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Pharme804
Thursday 24th September 2009
Very nice site!
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