COMMENT | Earlier this week a host of Google services including Gmail, Google Docs and YouTube were for a short but not unremarkable period of time inaccessible to many users globally.
For a set of services that so many users take for granted to all of a sudden be unavailable surely came as quite a shock to many. At best a Google outage is a mild annoyance, but at the more severe end of the scale it can completely halt productivity for those reliant on it.
Given the volume of valuable information stored on Google user accounts, be they professional documents and data created in Google Docs and Google Sheets, work-related emails, schedules, file shares and personal storage on Google Drive, the thought of suddenly losing control of that data is enough to make one nauseous.