After stirring up a Twitter storm, exec lists cause of widespread Google Apps failure
Google Inc. is blaming this morning's Google Apps service outage on a system error that caused a major traffic jam.
The company reported that the outage, which started a little before 11 a.m. EDT, caused about 14% of Google users to face slow service or interruptions. The problem affected all Google products, including Google Search, Google News, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Reader.
The outage appeared to start clearing up a little after noon EDT.
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Google Inc. is blaming this morning's Google Apps service outage on a system error that caused a major traffic jam.
The company reported that the outage, which started a little before 11 a.m. EDT, caused about 14% of Google users to face slow service or interruptions. The problem affected all Google products, including Google Search, Google News, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Reader.
The outage appeared to start clearing up a little after noon EDT.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133109