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Google Responds To ‘Gfail’ Outage With Apps Status Dashboard
TechCrunch —
... (especially for users who don’t follow Google’s blogs).
The news is in line with recent trends seen by other popular web services, like Twitter, which now offers its own dedicated Status Update. Given that users (especially business customers) are becoming increasingly reliant on Google’s cloud based services, this is a welcome move, though I’m hoping we won’t have to use it too often.
For more, check out Google’s blog post here.
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Dashboard shows customers Google Apps' health
Webware.com —
... "The Google Apps Status Dashboard represents an additional layer of transparency that we believe will be particularly useful for our business users, and it's also relevant to users of our consumer products," said Tessa Prescott of the Google Apps sales team in a blog post Wednesday. "Customers can use this Status Dashboard to check on the current service status of individual services such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Video for business." ...
Google unveils App Status Dashboard to confirm when your anger is justified
VentureBeat —
... me of when Twitter was failing last year, but the company wouldn’t even bother to tell any of its users what was going on. This led to everyone getting pissed off. When the company simply started communicating and launched things like the Twitter Status Blog, people were still annoyed when the service failed, but at least they felt in the loop and weren’t as angry and dumbfounded.
Google also notes other resources to check with a service goes down, in a post on the Google Enterprise blog. I still believe it’s unreasonable to think ...
Google Reacts to Downtime with Status Dashboard for Google Apps Users
The Next Web —
... status. As Jason Kincaid at Techcrunch highlights, this follows suit with other services such as Twitter who also have their own Twitter Status blog run on Tumblr.
It’s to Google’s credit that they react so swiftly to issues which could detrimentally affect the company’s reputation. In doing so, they are viewed as proactive, in tune and ever aware of their customers fears and concerns…impressive.
More info on the Google Enterprise blog if you’re interested. ...
Monitor Google services with Google Apps Status Dashboard
D' Technology Weblog —
... Google released a new Google Apps Status Dashboard for Customers to check on the current service status of individual services such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Video for business, anywhere in the world. Administrators of Google Apps for their businesses, schools and organizations can also view the performance of the administrative control panel. ...
New Google dashboard provides downtime information
Macworld —
... better informed of service outages by introducing a new dashboard for Google Apps on Wednesday. The feature comes just two days after Gmail went down for a couple of hours worldwide due to a coding problem, although Google said last year it would make more efforts to inform customers after several Gmail outages last August. The Google Apps Status Dashboard shows a list of applications such as Gmail, Video and Docs and a green check if the service is up, according to the company's enterprise blog . If not, it shows either a red "x" representing a service outage, a yellow wrench ...
Google Introduces Apps Status Dashboard
WebProNews Feed —
... "The Google Apps Status Dashboard represents an additional layer of transparency that we believe will be particularly useful for our business users, and it's also relevant to users of our consumer products," says Tessa Prescott of the Google Apps Sales Team. ...
Google Introduces App Status Dashboard to Deal with Downtime
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... The new Google Apps Status Dashboard, announced in a blog posting late Wednesday afternoon, is touted as being a step toward greater transparency within Google’s services. Representatives directly tied its release to Tuesday’s Gmail outage, citing the need for better communication. ...
Google Apps Status Dashboard
Google Blogoscoped —
Curious about past and present downtimes of Google’s applications? The Apps Status Dashboard lists various Google apps (like Gmail, Google Calendar, or Google Sites) and shows the availability status for different days.
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Gmail Failure Breeds Status Dashboard
TechWeb —
... status of Google Apps applications, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Video. It was created, the company said, because Google recognized the need for better communication in downtime situations. "The Google Apps Status Dashboard represents an additional layer of transparency that we believe will be particularly useful for our business users, and it's also relevant to users of our consumer products," said Google's Tessa Prescott in a blog post . "The Status Dashboard is the best place to check for information on service ...
Gmail Failure Breeds Status Dashboard
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... of Google Apps applications, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Video. It was created, the company said, because Google recognized the need for better communication in downtime situations. "The Google Apps Status Dashboard represents an additional layer of transparency that we believe will be particularly useful for our business users, and it's also relevant to users of our consumer products," said Google's Tessa Prescott in a blog post . "The Status Dashboard is the best place to check for information on service availability ...
Another Google service outage makes its cloud look more like Swiss cheese
Betanews —
... . Google Apps Status Dashboard, as seen on its inaugural day, 2/27/2009 "The Google Apps Status Dashboard represents an additional layer of transparency that we believe will be particularly useful for our business users," wrote sales team member Tessa Prescott this morning , "and it's also relevant to users of our consumer products. The Status Dashboard is the best place to check for information on service availability for Google Apps anywhere in the world." And of course -- to paraphrase the great comedian Peter Sellers famous "Soviet Cigarette Ad" sketch ("They're the best ...
Is Google Up Or Is Google Down?
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP —
... team, I regularly talk with customers to make sure that they’re getting the most out of Google Apps and I think that you will find this tool indispensable in managing your Google Apps deployment.
I believe that this is a welcome improvement so that we consumers do not have to guess whether an application is working or not.
Comments welcome.
Google Apps Status Dashboard
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