Saturday, September 26, 2009

Google down the gurgle... again!

Google mail went down again today. These Google failures are becoming a regular (monthly? bi-monthly?) occurrence and I've got to wonder about the economics of this model. Sure you might save some nice round numbers in short term dollars by slashing your IT budget but how many zillions do you loose in productivity (and sales and PR image) when your entire staff can't do their work?
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2 comments:

Robert Baehr said...

Graham:

A perfect example of why I am not an advocate of putting your business intelligence "in the cloud"

Cheers
Robert Baehr
The Unofficial Poster Child For Lotus Foundations, Lotus Notes, and Domino

Gavin Bollard said...

In terms of usability, Google's offerings are the best in the industry. Reliability though... well, that's a different matter.