Gmail crash raises web services fears

Google’s e-mail service, used by more than 100m people, suffered a global crash on Tuesday, raising concerns about the world’s growing reliance on web services.The Gmail outage lasted more than two hours from about 1.30am on the US West Coast, hitting users in Europe and Asia hardest as America slept.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fc3d8a86-02a0-11de-b58b-000077b07658.htmlGoogle users hit by mail outage
Business and consumer users of Google’s popular e-mail service were hit by an outage on Tuesday.The service went offline at 0930 GMT with Google saying it was “working hard to resolve this problem”.Professional users of Google mail are covered by a service level agreement that promises to be 99.9% operational in any calendar month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7907583.stmGmail struck with service outage
Google’s Gmail service was unavailable starting around 10:30 AM GMT on Tuesday. Google acknowledged the problem and said it was working to restore service.
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