Today Gmail service was disrupted for just over an hour, causing about 5.25 million account holders be denied access to their mail during that time window. Google admins have given no indication what the cause for the outage was. The only statement Google gave at that time was: “We’ve implemented a fix and users should …
Category: The Cloud
Yet Another Major Cloud Outage
Today Microsoft has joined the list of Cloud service providers that have had a major Could service outage: “Microsoft’s cloud platform, Windows Azure, is experiencing a major outage: at the time of writing, its service management system had been down for about seven hours worldwide. A customer described the problem to The Register as an …
Dropbox SMB service offering not up to the task
Dropbox, which positioned itself as a provider of cheap cloud storage for consumers, has launched a new service offering called Teams targeted to small and mid-sized. However, Small and Medium businesses considering the service need to keep in mind that this service lacks key compliance certifications many businesses need to comply with, failure to do …