Mountain View (CA) - G-mail, Google’s web-based e-mail client was aching yesterday, full of issues and outages. Last week, a significant outage left many of Google’s customers without access to their e-mail and other Google web services for hours. Since then, the service has been spotty.

According to different blog posts and Twitter sites, users of Gmail, in all different areas of the world, but mainly in the New York area are reporting e-mail outages. They also claim that they are seeing a reduced function of the service. Apparently, customers are experiencing issues with items such as IMAP access, slow loading pages, threads not working correctly, and even the Gmail site is occasionally not loading at all and shows a blank page as a result.
 
Last Thursday night, Google experienced a complete outage to its Google Apps Premier Edition Service (GAPE). GAPE is a paid service typically utilized by businesses. This outage lasted for more than 24 hours, angering many customers.

Google did not comment on the outages.

Back to MSOffice

Oct 21, 2008 07:57     

Back to square one! - need to go back to our good old desktop/local servers and services..?
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Re: Back to MSOffice

Oct 21, 2008 08:45     

I totally agree with you. Cloud services are useful, but i don't think they can ever replace good ol' desktop apps.
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cloud.

Oct 21, 2008 11:33     

Cloud is a add-on service that is nice to use when you are on the run. However, you can't have your company's productivity depends on a third party web company. Anything can happen on the web. For all you know when other country decided to do a cyber war with USA...you could have well lose your connection and data all together.
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Why am I not experiencing any of these outages?

Oct 21, 2008 16:56     

I can't think of one instance in which I couldn't access my gmail account.
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