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The downtime this morning seems to give critics of cloud computing an easy way to say, 'told you so' - but I agree (with Chris) that most of us who have had to work with internal IT management tools, say a company intranet, know that one hour of downtime over the course of a year is, indeed, hardly a blip on the radar.
What is of note here is that when folks are upset (and justifiably so) over an hour of downtime, we know that the standards and expectations for online services are right where we want them - very high.
Going to be interesting to see what the problem was and how Google addresses it.
-Kendra
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