Gmail Outage Likely Hit Several Million on Thursday - williamsonmese1948

Google's Gmail webmail service was unavailable for to a higher degree 90 minutes on Thursday, an outage that may take in affected almost 4.8 jillio users.

Google showtime acknowledged the problem round 11 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time, and asserted information technology resolved at 12:40 p.m., saying IT had affected "less than" 1.38 percent of the Google Ring mail exploiter base.

Forward the outage hit 1.37 percent of Gmail's close to 350 trillion active users, then the total number of affected users would hold been about 4.79 cardinal.

Users impacted were ineffectual to access their Gmail accounts, according to the Google Apps Status dashboard.

Earlier this week, an undetermined turn of Google Spreadsheets users were plummy for about two hours by a bug that displayed frequent CAPTCHA screens when they unsuccessful to open files. CAPTCHA systems involve users to enter text edition they display in a box earlier handsome them access to specific functionality in an application. The purpose is to make sure that the users are human beings and not machines that may attempt to misuse or blackguard the application in doubt.

Gmail suffered an outage in mid-Apr that lasted to a higher degree one hour and may have wedged more than than 33 meg users.

Gmail is used by individuals and, as a component of the Google Apps email and collaboration suite, away organizations. Gmail is free equally a standalone service and as part of the Standard and Education editions of Google Apps. The Google Apps for Business edition costs US$50 per user, p.a., or $5 per user, per month for organizations that would rather renew their contracts monthly. Much than 4 million businesses use Google Apps.

Reliability of cloud-based software is an current touch for organizations, especially when a critical work tool like netmail is stilted. Still, Google and other cloud software system providers stay on to steady improve the performance and uptime of their products.

Juan Carlos Perez covers enterprise communication/collaborationism suites, operating systems, browsers and general technology break news for The IDG Word Service. Watch over Juan on Twitter at @JuanCPerezIDG.