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James 'Jimmy' Blake is the Chief Security Officer for Mimecast,  a leading cloud services company based in London.  James has overall responsibility for risk management for the organisation's internal IT infrastructure and service delivery platforms spread across four continents.  James also manages the security of platforms deployed within partners such as Cable & Wireless and Iron Mountain.

James is also one of the founders of eyeCompli, a company providing Software-as-a-Service standards-based risk assessment and security program management solutions.

He holds a PhD in Information Security Management and is a Certified Information Security Systems Professional. James has nearly two decades of commercial experience in information security, business continuity and storage.

James has a love of loud Harley Davidson motorcycles, real ale, role playing games and even louder heavy metal.  He lives in rural Kent with his partner, Sonia, and stepson, Rafael.

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Sep012009

Gmail wobbling again, including commercial services

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Picked this up on TechCrunch this morning, Gmail is once again hitting some wobbles with reports of 503 and 500 server errors when users attempt to logon.  Looks like this is shaping up to be Google's fourth outage this year.

Update: 1 Sep 21:19 GMT

As expected the wobble has turned into an outage.

Update: 2 Sept 08:40 GMT

Turns out that the outage was caused by server overload during an upgrade - not very good capacity planning.

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