CTO, Cemaphore Systems
As CTO of Cemaphore Systems and 19-year background in high-availability messaging and disaster recovery systems, I think that Google handled the outage in a professional manner—acting openly and swiftly to address the issue.
These recent outages do highlight the critical yet often forgotten need for email continuity to complement the online email service provider offering. For example, Cemaphore specializes in software which syncs and protects email real time in the cloud. With our MailShadow product (for Gmail/ Google Apps or Microsoft Exchange Online), companies can replicate all their email, contact and calendar data between Exchange/Outlook and their hosted email solution with Google or Microsoft---or even between 2 cloud provider email systems. So if an email outage occurs, users can continue running. Check us out at www.cemaphore.com.
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