{"id":7040,"date":"2008-07-08T14:38:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/google_docs_outage.html"},"modified":"2008-07-08T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:38:40","slug":"google-docs-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/google-docs-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Docs Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Should SaaS Vendors Be More Accountable?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Google had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/07\/08\/docs_and_spreadsheets_goes_down\/\">outage<\/a> in its office application division today. One wonders how they haven&#8217;t had something similar happen with their search engine but the docs and spreadsheets were affected. I would imagine if both Amazon and Google are having problems keeping their SaaS\/cloud computing house in order &#8212; when will companies feel truly comfortable relying on them for such services?<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that the cost savings of using such services is compelling but when you have a noon deadline today for a million dollar order and you can&#8217;t access your spreadsheet for 2 hours, are you really saving money?<\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/-hyperic-monitor-amazoncoms-cloud-computing-availability-\/2008\/06\/25\/3515483.htm\" id=\"s-pVCTunHrWDZZhpdubMcj7A:u-AFQjCNEOEelyHc5JHtK0jOCke1fQ9gpm4A:r-0_1224251691\">Hyperic  To Monitor Amazon.com&#8217;s Cloud Computing Availability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should SaaS Vendors Be More Accountable? Google had an outage in its office application division today. One wonders how they haven&#8217;t had something similar happen with their search engine but the docs and spreadsheets were affected. I would imagine if both Amazon and Google are having problems keeping their SaaS\/cloud computing house in order &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,188,209,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}