New York Times: Google on Massive Google+ Spam Influx: "We Ran Out of Disk Space"

As Vic put it rightly in the note below... Isn't it odd that a company as big, advanced, tech savvy and importantly one with seemingly limitless access to hardware and resources as Google also had to be bogged down with something as simple as disk space issue!
I suppose we have a new line to use going forward if and we run into a space issue. "Heck, even Google couldn't escape a disk space issue! ;-))


Many Google+ users sawa massive amount of notification email messages from the service this afternoon, and now Google 's head of social Vic Gundotra has an explanation. "For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications," Gundotra wrote on Google+ tonight. "Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again. ...
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