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Salesforce hit by global outage as Google Drive also suffers disruption
Salesforce suffered a widespread service disruption on September 16 that caused severe delays, intermittent errors, and access problems across regions, with Salesforce attributing the issue to increased load on a core system component. Google Drive separately experienced a 37-minute disruption the same day — a useful reminder of how much employee productivity now depends on a small number of SaaS platforms and why IT still needs outage communications and fallback processes even for highly resilient cloud services.
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