Tag Archives: Docs
Google Drive official: 5GB of free storage, Chrome web apps, Wave-like sharing and editing (video)
If it happened any other way, it just wouldn't be as satisfying, now would it? After years of leaks, murmurs, hubbub and other familiar synonyms, Google's mythical cloud storage platform is now official... sort of. As Lady Fate would have it, the com...
Google Explains Its Google Docs Outage
Google Docs suffered an extended outage this week, which raised concerns, yet again, about the reliability involved with storing mission-critical documents in the cloud. Personally, I'd rather trust Google's redundant server infrastructure than my own hard drive. However, for enterprise users, the problem with cloud outages is that local I.T. staff can't do anything about the problem, unless they use a third-party backup service, for example.
Today, Google is sharing details on what happened to its Docs service, and what it's doing to correct the problem in the future.
One of the early pioneers in the Quantified Self movement has quietly gone out of business. 