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Gmail users hit by outage again
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GW_Staff on 13 August, 2008 01:45:00
 
It’s the second Gmail outage in less than a week, and as the service wobbles,
questions persist about Google’s ability to provide enterprise-grade software
availability and performance.
Google is heavily promoting its Apps collaboration and communication software
suite as a SaaS (software-as-a-service) option to conventional, on-premise
options like Microsoft’s Office and Outlook/Exchange.
While so-called cloud computing services like Apps, in which software and IT
infrastructure are provided via the Internet, are convenient in several ways,
their Achilles heel is server downtime and slowness. ...Go to source