Google Gmail Outage Brings Out Cloud Computing Naysayers

October 20, 2008 | Posted in Computer & Internet | 121 views

Gmail service was unavailable to “a small number of users”

Google Gmail Outage Brings Out Cloud Computing Naysayers

Because the outage appears to have lasted more than 24 hours for some, affected paying Gmail customers appear to be owed service credits, as per the terms of the Gmail SLA.

Gmail service was unavailable to “a small number of users” from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday evening.

The outage appears to have begun about 2 p.m. PDT Wednesday. “We’re aware of a problem with Gmail access affecting a small number of users,” said a Google moderator named Mark in a Google Groups post on Wednesday. “We expect to provide an estimated problem resolution time at 3 pm [PDT]. Please note that this is an estimate and is subject to change.”

Source [ InformationWeek ]

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