Google Apps Gets a 99.9% Guarantee 155
David Gerard passes along a posting on Google's official blog announcing that they have extended the three-nines SLA for the Premier Edition of Google Apps from Gmail alone to also cover the Calendar, Docs, Sites, and Google Talk services. 99.9% uptime translates to 45 minutes a month of downtime, and the blog post puts this in context with Gmail's historical reliability, which has been between three and four times as good over the last year (10-15 min./mo.). It also claims, based on research by an outside group, that Gmail's historical reliability beats that of in-house hosted solutions such as Groupwise and Exchange, on average. Reader Ian Lamont adds an article in The Standard that digs down into the details of the SLA, revealing for instance that outages of less than 10 minutes aren't counted against the monthly 45 minutes.
Re:Umm... (Score:2, Funny)
Well you could have 90 downtime like this and still count? If it's down for 9 minutes, up for 1, down for 9 etc.
But of course measuring it googles way that would still be 100% uptime.
What I actually posted (Score:5, Funny)
was their claim that this is 4x less outages than on-site-maintained Exchange or GroupWise.
(Notes, of course, gets 45 minutes of uptime a year.)
Re:Wait.. (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, punch those bastards. Punch 'em so hard they'll go flying up high in the sky. In the cloud, even.
Re:Wait.. (Score:3, Funny)
It's called a cluster, "The cloud" is a really annoying buzzword for software as a service.
An from my experience clouds are full of unpredictable vapour and they tend to have this annoying tendency to turn to rain - not really something I would want for my data ;)
Re:Wait.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Push (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft has 5 nines ... (Score:4, Funny)
0.00099999.
Hey, it's five nines ... and with all the "exceptions" and bogus metrics in google's SLA, they're not offering 3 nines.
Re:Nothing has 100% uptime (Score:5, Funny)