Google Drive

A week ago, Google Drive, a free online storage venue, reported an outage; service was restored shortly afterwards.

The malfunction occurred at 7:17 a.m. Eastern time, according to Google's AppStatus dashboard, and the company received word of the interruption to the service shortly before beginning its investigation into the error. The company stated, around an hour afterwards, that a "significant subset of users" was experiencing access issues.

As any good Internet marketer knows, on the social web the customers should come to you. Google Apps is now making it easier for its resellers to promote its apps through their own services. To attract more customers, Google's newly introduced Reseller API allows IT service providers and channel tools developers to integrate Google Apps sign-up and administration functions into customer-interfacing programs, such as a webhost sign-up process.