Wow.<div><br></div><div>Everything I&#39;ve read and heard indicates that Google has built a global, fault-tolerant, self-healing, low-cost file system and server cluster, designed by the best PhDs in computer science money can buy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Someone once said &quot;Complex systems fail in complex ways.&quot;</div><div><br></div><div>/rich<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Harper, Chris <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind0905%26L%3DMSUNAG%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D406659%26B%3D--001e680f1520412e0d0469e6e9f0%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dwindows-1252%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p>Anyone notice Google and the ‘net in general was a
little slow earlier today?</p>

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<p><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/14/google-says-googlefail-outages-are-over/" target="_blank">http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/14/google-says-googlefail-outages-are-over/</a></p>

<p><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/google-confirms-problems-accessing-its-services/?hp" target="_blank">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/google-confirms-problems-accessing-its-services/?hp</a></p>


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<p>Just goes to show you how intertwined everything is, and Google
is right at the center.</p>

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<p><b>Christopher M. Harper</b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt">MANAGER OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:8.0pt">University Relations, Michigan
State University</span></p>

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