Comments on: The Cloud is Falling! The Cloud is Falling! http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/otocorporate-posts/2009/09/01/the-cloud-is-falling-the-cloud-is-falling/ One to One Interactive Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:14:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Sometimes a service outage can be a good thing « OTO One to One Interactive http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/otocorporate-posts/2009/09/01/the-cloud-is-falling-the-cloud-is-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-298 Sometimes a service outage can be a good thing « OTO One to One Interactive Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:17:24 +0000 http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/?p=5698#comment-298 [...] few weeks ago, I poked fun at the overreactions to Gmail’s service outage on September 1st.  At the same time, however, I made it clear [...] [...] few weeks ago, I poked fun at the overreactions to Gmail’s service outage on September 1st.  At the same time, however, I made it clear [...]

]]> By: Mike http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/otocorporate-posts/2009/09/01/the-cloud-is-falling-the-cloud-is-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Mike Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:06:21 +0000 http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/?p=5698#comment-287 I liked Eudora. I wonder if that's still around. There's a Lab in Gmail that will kick you off at set intervals to force you to get stuff done. Even last time gmail went down it was available through client aps. -M I liked Eudora. I wonder if that’s still around. There’s a Lab in Gmail that will kick you off at set intervals to force you to get stuff done. Even last time gmail went down it was available through client aps.

-M

]]> By: David LaPlante http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/otocorporate-posts/2009/09/01/the-cloud-is-falling-the-cloud-is-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-285 David LaPlante Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:22:48 +0000 http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/?p=5698#comment-285 A Pine emulator for Google Mail would make me happy 8-) A Pine emulator for Google Mail would make me happy 8-)

]]> By: abertrand http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/otocorporate-posts/2009/09/01/the-cloud-is-falling-the-cloud-is-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-284 abertrand Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:45:47 +0000 http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/?p=5698#comment-284 Of course services like Exchange go down for planned maintenance windows. The GMail outage did not seem like planned maintenance at all, but as it turns out, it was - just not very well-planned: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/why-gmail-failed-today/ http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-issue.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8232971.stm Anyway, I'm not over-reacting, I'm just commenting on the buzz and trying to spur some dialog. I even made fun of the Chicken Little reactions of others. The outage didn't affect me, in fact I was on the train when it happened and had much else to do but throw together this post and screen shots. The only time I really invested was swapping out the fail whale for the GMail icon in the first picture, which took about 6 minutes all told. I am pretty happy with the move to GMail, and I'm not trying to slam them. I just expected better redundancy out of such a market leader, and was overwhelmed by the number of conversations that sparked up over it. Of course services like Exchange go down for planned maintenance windows. The GMail outage did not seem like planned maintenance at all, but as it turns out, it was - just not very well-planned:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/why-gmail-failed-today/

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-issue.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8232971.stm

Anyway, I’m not over-reacting, I’m just commenting on the buzz and trying to spur some dialog. I even made fun of the Chicken Little reactions of others. The outage didn’t affect me, in fact I was on the train when it happened and had much else to do but throw together this post and screen shots. The only time I really invested was swapping out the fail whale for the GMail icon in the first picture, which took about 6 minutes all told.

I am pretty happy with the move to GMail, and I’m not trying to slam them. I just expected better redundancy out of such a market leader, and was overwhelmed by the number of conversations that sparked up over it.

]]> By: jkarnell http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/otocorporate-posts/2009/09/01/the-cloud-is-falling-the-cloud-is-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-283 jkarnell Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:11:11 +0000 http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/?p=5698#comment-283 I don't know Aaron. When we used to manage e-mail through Exchange our IT would send monthly e-mails that it would be down for a couple of hours at a time. Did not see anyone blogging about that. With all of the additional benefits that Google is bringing to the Enterprise, this just seems like a massive over reaction. Its not like they went down for days. Microsoft I don’t know Aaron. When we used to manage e-mail through Exchange our IT would send monthly e-mails that it would be down for a couple of hours at a time. Did not see anyone blogging about that. With all of the additional benefits that Google is bringing to the Enterprise, this just seems like a massive over reaction. Its not like they went down for days.

Microsoft

]]> By: Aaron Bertrand http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/otocorporate-posts/2009/09/01/the-cloud-is-falling-the-cloud-is-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Aaron Bertrand Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:52:10 +0000 http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/?p=5698#comment-282 Come on Jeremi, it's a hot topic and hard to ignore and pretend it didn't happen. Monsters like google have multiple layers of redundancy and simply don't have an outage like this at the frequency of lower capital web properties. And most of the other folks that do have outages are providing far less essential services. Come on Jeremi, it’s a hot topic and hard to ignore and pretend it didn’t happen. Monsters like google have multiple layers of redundancy and simply don’t have an outage like this at the frequency of lower capital web properties. And most of the other folks that do have outages are providing far less essential services.

]]> By: jkarnell http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/otocorporate-posts/2009/09/01/the-cloud-is-falling-the-cloud-is-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-281 jkarnell Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:18:07 +0000 http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/?p=5698#comment-281 Um....it's an outage. It happens! I do not know of a single web service that does not experience these issues. I know I was not terribly inconvenienced for a second over this incident. Seems very Chicken Little to invest so much time calling it out. Um….it’s an outage. It happens! I do not know of a single web service that does not experience these issues. I know I was not terribly inconvenienced for a second over this incident. Seems very Chicken Little to invest so much time calling it out.

]]> By: Nate http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/otocorporate-posts/2009/09/01/the-cloud-is-falling-the-cloud-is-falling/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Nate Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:14:46 +0000 http://www.onetooneinteractive.com/?p=5698#comment-280 I'm pulling all my stuff off of Gmail and going back to Pine. I know I'll be trading in a lot of features but at least my email won't go down for an hour once every ten or eleven months. Maybe. I’m pulling all my stuff off of Gmail and going back to Pine. I know I’ll be trading in a lot of features but at least my email won’t go down for an hour once every ten or eleven months.

Maybe.

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