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September 2nd, 2009

Is it fair to criticize Google for the Gmail outage? [video]

Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 10:03 am

Categories: Google

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Video, Outage, TechVi, E-mail Providers, Manufacturing, Cloud Computing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Is it fair to criticize Google for yesterday’s 100-minute Gmail outage, or is it par for the course when you’re flying high in the cloud?

TechVi’s Randall Bennett and I discuss:

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Something VERY positive
As inconvenient as this was for users, I think the side-effects of such a failure are going to be VERY positive.

It is likely to lead to:

1. Improved human processes.
2. Better fault ... (Read the rest)
Posted by: linuser Posted on: 09/03/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Yes it is fair to criticize  Michael Kelly | 09/02/09
Something VERY positive  linuser | 09/03/09
Absolutely  DontSpreadLies | 09/02/09
About effects of the outage on Gmail, perhaps not, but on Google Apps  markbn | 09/02/09
As fair as it is to criticize any company that has an outage.  mlindl | 09/02/09
Yes. Their name is on it.  GuidingLight | 09/02/09
RE: Is it fair to criticize Google for the Gmail outage? [video]  Loverock Davidson | 09/02/09
Fair????? It is your OBLIGATION to criticize them.  DonnieBoy | 09/02/09
Just M$ propaganda  Linux Geek | 09/02/09
Huh?  rtk | 09/02/09
yeah, but  Linux Geek | 09/02/09
And just guess what OS Google uses on its servers?  ths40 | 09/02/09
He is not an  GuidingLight | 09/02/09
Ah, you mean...  mgp3 | 09/02/09
RE: Is it fair to criticize Google for the Gmail outage? [video]  JRGuzzetta | 09/02/09

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