Google’s computer repair team is working to make the damages minimal but the Gmail scare of 2011 is hitting the news. The small failure in the search engine’s cloud network has made people realize that being cloud dependent could be dangerous. Crunchgear.com has the story about the network consulting that has been going on. Check it out!
Google says that the glitch, which first popped up at the weekend, has only affected a small percentage of the Gmail userbase. Initial estimates hovered around less than 0.29 percent of all Gmail users, but that number has since been revised down to less than 0.08 percent of all Gmail users.
It’s fair to say that calling the glitch “widespread” probably wouldn’t be entirely accurate.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t use this episode as a “teachable moment,” a time to reflect on the wisdom of moving so much of our data to the cloud.
The cloud, Conan? Odds are you use the cloud several times per day. Do you use an e-mail service like Gmail? That’s the cloud. Ever stream music from Spotify or Rdio? That’s the cloud. Watch Netflix streams before going to bed? Yup, that’s the cloud.
Do you have the IT consulting support if a fail happened to you?
