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Cloud computing, security, mobile, storage…these topics were all included in ITKE’s top blog posts for April. Find out what our bloggers were saying about each topic.

• Facebook Home on Android is a non-starter by Ron Miller (View From Above)

• Microsoft recalls security update from April Patch Tuesday by Toni Boger (The Windows Server Notebook)

• Kaspersky report shows why you need to keep your software up to date by Tony Bradley (The Security Detail)

• Storage playing key role in entertainment industry by Randy Kerns (Storage Soup)

• Disruption catches up with everyone, even Apple by Ron Miller (View From Above)

• Project secrets of Downton Abbey by Matt Heusser (Unchartered Waters)

• Is “build your own cloud” the new IT gym membership by Brian Gracely (From Silos to Services: Cloud Computing for the Enterprise)

• What do enterprises expect from OpenStack by Brian Gracely (From Silos to Services: Cloud Computing for the Enterprise)

• Nimble Storage adds reference architecture, new level of analytics by Dave Raffo (Storage Soup)

• Profiling the best Exchange Server professionals (April 2013) – Jeff Guillet by Matt Gervais (The Microsoft Messaging Exchange)

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Now, GMail and Google’s other services likely have better uptime than many IT organizations, but as the author of TechCrunch’s article noted, Googles Guerrillas were having a tough time:

I use Apps For Domain for everything – my contacts, my email, my todo list, my chat, my documents and more recently, my phone. As soon as it went down, I noticed in less than a second. I am now completely stuck, after a few months of being impressed by how I was able to run my entire life on Google.

It is not just the frontend that is down, but also the backend IMAP and POP servers (Update: they are up, but slow). This is a huge fail for Google, considering how admired they are for all the technology they have built internally to scale out their applications.

Most IT organizations would at least provide prioritization of business critical services, along with a trouble ticketing system to assess what is down where. With GMail, on the rare occasion it does go down, it goes down in a very big way.

Now the question is, will this dissuade any of the Google Guerrillas that recently wanted to chuck IT in favor of a user-ocracy?