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Google's Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in an outage that the company said affected a 'majority' of its millions of e-mail users, including consumers who get Gmail for free and businesses that pay for a version for their employees.
It was a disruption, which lasted under two hours, it was a bitter reminder of the growing dependence on Google's technology in today's world. The free version of Gmail is the world's third most popular e-mail program with some 149 million users worldwid, ranking behind the free e-mail services offered by Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc.
Tuesday's disruption led tens of millions of Gmail users to get an 'Unable to reach Gmail' error message as their computers tried repeatedly to reconnect to the service. Google said it had taken some of Gmail's servers offline for routine maintenance, and underestimated the load that would place on other computers responsible for directing traffic to the appropriate Gmail servers.
Businesses and Google:
Businesses are increasingly leaning on Google's services because they are delivered over the Internet instead of being managed in-house. That can save companies money and buy them more storage than they could otherwise afford. But many corporations are skeptical about outsourcing such critical tasks.
Google argues that Web-based services are more reliable than those handled in-house, but big outages like Tuesday's add another challenge to selling to reluctant businesses.
Google says more than 1.75 million businesses use Gmail as part of Google Apps, which is Google's answer to business software from Microsoft Corp. It's a key part of Google's strategy to inject its brand deeper into corporations. Google Apps costs $50 per user per year.
Would like to know from users, how communications in technology is playing its role in today's businesses and How much are we dependent on Google's technologies?
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